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"LEA, a parish in the hundred of Malmesbury, county Wilts, 2 miles S.E. of Malmesbury, its post town. It is a small agricultural parish, containing the hamlet of Cleaverton. There is a large corn-mill in the neighbourhood, worked by a small stream flowing into the Avon. The land is chiefly pasture. The soil is a sandy loam, alternating with clay. The impropriate tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £30, and the vicarial for £188 9s. The living is a vicarage annexed to the rectory* of Garsden, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. The church, dedicated to St. Giles, is an ancient edifice, with a square tower containing five bells. It is supposed to have been erected before the Conquest, and was restored in 1840. There is a free school for both sexes. The parochial charities produce about £6 per annum. There is a chapel for the Independents. The Earl of Pembroke is lord of the manor."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
Lea is 2 miles S.E. of Malmesbury. Grid Ref ST957863. Postcode SN16 9PB. Population 419 in 1831, 582 in 1951. Cleverton is a mile East of Lea.
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Common to all parishes is a BTs before surviving registers for 1605-09, 1619-23, 1632-37, 1666-79, 1707-11, 1718, 1728-1838
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Megan Thompson has supplied a transcription of Lea and Cleverton 1780 Land Tax (large file, around 400K bytes).