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.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
