LEA, a parish in the wapentake of CORRINGHAM,
parts of LINDSEY, county of LINCOLN, 2 miles (S.S.
E.) from Gainsborough, containing 199 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Stow,
and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at
£9. 4. 2., and in the patronage of the Rev. Sir C. J.
Anderson, Bart. The church is dedicated to St. Helen.
Here are some fish ponds and a moat, the remains of
an ancient religious house. Gypsum is found under the
marl in this parish. A Cistercian nunnery was founded,
in 1180, at Hevening, in this parish, by Reyner Evermue;
it was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and at
the dissolution had a revenue of £58. 13. 4.