Lea, Herefordshire

Historical Description

Lea, a village and a parish in Herefordshire. The village stands near Mitcheldean Road station on the Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester branch of the G.W.R., and near the boundary with Gloucestershire, 4½ miles ESE of Ross, and has a post and money order office under Ross; telegraph office, Mitcheldean. The parish comprises 793 acres; population of the-civil parish, 234; of the ecclesiastical, 248. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, , £130. Patron, the Vicar of Linton. The church is ancienty has a tower and spire, and was restored in 1854.

Administration

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

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

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. John))

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.

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 Herefordshire newspapers online:

• Hereford Journal
• Hereford Times