Lea, Lincolnshire

Historical Description

Lea, a parish in Lincolnshire, adjacent to the river Trent, 2½ miles SSE of Gainsborough. It has a station on th& Spalding and Doncaster section of the G.N. and G.E. Joint railway, and a post office under Gainsborough; money order and telegraph office, Gainsborough. Acreage, 2188; population, 188. Lea Hall belongs to the Anderson family, is a mansion of brick standing in park-like grounds, and contains many interesting pictures and antiquities. A Cistercian nunnery was founded in 1180 at Hevening or Heyning by Reyuer Evermere, and has left some traces. The living is. a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £291 with residence. The church, which stands upon an eminence, i& a building in the Early English, Decorated, and Perpendicular styles. It has some old stained glass in the E window, several modern stained windows, a cross-legged effigy in stone of Sir Ranulf Trehampton (about 1300), and several other monuments.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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Church Records

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Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Lea from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Lea (St. Helen))

Maps

Online maps of Lea are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lincolnshire papers online:

• Grantham Journal
• Grimsby Daily Telegraph
• Lincolnshire Chronicle
• Lincolnshire Echo
• Lincolnshire Free Press
• Louth and North Lincolnshire Advertiser
• Stamford Mercury

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