Leake, Lincolnshire

Description
Leake, a parish in Lincolnshire, on the East Lincoln section of the G.N.R. and the Hobhole Drain, 7 miles NK of Boston, and having a coast line of considerable length. It contains Old Leake railway station and New Leake village, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Boston. Acreage, 9434; population of the civil parish, 1962; of the ecclesiastical, 1386. Brewing is carried on. At Lade Bank, on the W side of Hobhole Drain, there are extensive pumping works for the West and Wildmore Fens, and for the East Fen N of that point. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £300 with residence. Patrons, the Gov- ernors of Oakham and Uppingham Schools. The church is a fine large building of stone, chiefly in the Early English, Decorated, and Perpendicular styles, with a noble clerestory and a very massive unfinished tower. It has been well restored, and contains three sedilia, an octagonal font, an alabaster effigy of a knight, two curiously-carved stones in the wall, and an ancient iron-bound poor-box. There is a chapel of ease, a building of white brick in the Early English style, erected in 1875. Remains of two monasteries are about a mile from the church, one on the S side and the other on the W. There are two Wesleyan chapels, and one for Primitive Methodists. Charities, about ^6150 a year.