Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LEAKE (NEW)

LEAKE (NEW), a village in Leake parish, Lincoln; in the East Fen, near Fodderdyke, ¼ of a mile W of Eastville r. station, and 10 miles NNE of Boston. A Wesleyan chapel is here, and was built in 1838.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Leake AP/CP       Lincolnshire AncC
Place names: LEAKE     |     LEAKE NEW     |     NEW LEAKE
Place: New Leake

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