Lea, Lancashire
Historical Description
Lea, a hamlet, forming with the hamlets of Ashton, Cot-tarn, and Ingol a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Lancashire, 3 miles WNW of Preston, with a station, called, Lea Road, on the Preston and Wyre section of the L. & N.W.R. Post town, Preston; money order and telegraph office, Ashton. The greater part of the township is in the county borough, of Preston. Acreage of township, 3332 of land and 156 of water; population, 4865. The ecclesiastical parish bears th& name of Ashton, and was constituted in 1836. There is an endowed school with, £80 a year, and a Roman Catholic chapel. See ASHTON-ON-RIBBLE.
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Lancashire Archives, have images of the Parish Registers for Lancashire online.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire 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 Lancashire newspapers online: