Lea, Wiltshire

Description
Lea, a village and a parish in Wiltshire. The village stands 1 1/4 mile ESE of Malmesbury station on the G.W.R.. and has a post office under Malmesbury; money order and telegraph office, Malmesbury. The parish contains also the hamlet of Cleaverton, and is all included in Malmesbury rural sanitary authority. Acreage, 1774; population of the civil parish, 450; of the ecclesiastical, 591. The manor belongs to the Earl of Pembroke. There is a large corn-mill. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the rectory of Garsdon, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; value, , £300 with residence. The church of St Giles was entirely rebuilt in 1880. There are Congregational and Methodist chapels.