Lancashire
Preston District
Lea

Lea

Lea, Cottam, and Lea Town are villages in the City of Preston, Lancashire, England. Together they form the civil parish of Lea and Cottam, which has a population of 5,962. In 2011, the population increased to 6,157.
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  • Type: Village with 7,150 residents
  • Description: suburb and civil parish in Preston, Lancashire, England
  • Also known as: “Lea (civil parish), Lancashire”, “Lea Town”, and “Lea, Lancashire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Springfields and St John the Evangelist’s Church, Clifton.

Factory
is a nuclear fuel production installation in Salwick, near in , . The site is currently operated by Fuels Limited, under the management of Westinghouse Electric UK Limited, on a 150-year lease from the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.

Church
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St John the Evangelist's Church, also known as Lund Parish Church, is located on an isolated site near the village of Clifton, , England. It is an active Anglican in the deanery of Kirkham, the archdeaconry of Lancaster, and the diocese of Blackburn.

Railway station
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Salwick railway station serves the village of Salwick, in , England; it lies near to the village of Clifton. It is a stop on the Blackpool South branch line, 5+1⁄4 miles west of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Catforth and Kirkham.

Village
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is a village in the English civil parish of and the City of Preston district, in , England. There is a village hall and the now-closed pub, The Running Pump, is situated on Road, which is the village's main road. is situated 3 miles north of Lea.

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is a small town and civil parish in the Borough of Fylde in Lancashire, England. has 20 heritage listed buildings. Many of the buildings in the town centre date from the Georgian and Victorian eras.

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is a city in the county of in , with a population in 2021 of 148,000. It's a former textile and engineering town; it still makes aircraft, hosts the county local government, and has a university.

Lea

Latitude
53.77303° or 53° 46′ 23″ north
Longitude
-2.79477° or 2° 47′ 41″ west
Population
7,150
Elevation
72 feet (22 metres)
Open location code
9C5VQ6F4+63
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29399820
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2644723
Wiki­data ID
Q2128497
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In Other Languages

From Bengali to Welsh—“Lea” goes by many names.
  • Bengali: “লিয়া”
  • Cebuano: “Lea (parokya sa Hiniusang Gingharian, Inglatera, Lancashire)”
  • Cebuano: “Lea”
  • Chinese: “利雅”
  • Dutch: “Lea”
  • French: “Lea”
  • German: “Lea”
  • Gujarati: “લી”
  • Irish: “Lea”
  • Japanese: “リア”
  • Kannada: “ಲೀ”
  • Korean: “레아”
  • Ladin: “Lea (Lancashire)”
  • Ladin: “Lea”
  • Lithuanian: “Lea”
  • Polish: “Lea”
  • Portuguese: “Lea”
  • Russian: “Ли”
  • Spanish: “Lea”
  • Swedish: “Lea (parish i Storbritannien, England, Lancashire)”
  • Swedish: “Lea, Lancashire”
  • Tamil: “லே”
  • Telugu: “లీ”
  • Turkish: “Lea, Lancashire”
  • Urdu: “لیا”
  • Welsh: “Lea, Swydd Gaerhirfryn”
  • Welsh: “Lea”
  • “Lea”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lea”. Photo: A-M-Jervis, CC BY-SA 2.0.