Description
Lea, a village and a parish in Herefordshire. The villag& stands near Mitcheldean Road station on the Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester branch of the G.W.R., and near the boundary with Gloucestershire, 4 1/2 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.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
