Lea, Lincolnshire

Description
Lea, a parish in Lincolnshire, adjacent to the river Trent, 2 1/2 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.