Lea
Lea is a village and civil parish in the south east of Herefordshire. It lies south-east of Ross-on-Wye and adjoins the boundary of Gloucestershire. Amenities include a school, church, village hall, shop, public house, garage and a twice-weekly mobile Post Office, all of which lie on the A40 road which passes through the village and links Ross and Gloucester.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 823 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England
- Also known as: “Lea, Herefordshire” and “The Lea”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St John the Baptist and Lea Bailey Light Railway.
Lea Bailey Light Railway
Photo: Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Lea Bailey Light Railway is a 2 ft narrow-gauge heritage railway in the United Kingdom. It is built on the site of the Bailey Level Gold Mine. An attempt was made in 2003 by the owners of Clearwell Caves to open the mine as a tourist attraction, but this was ultimately unsuccessful. Lea Bailey Light Railway is situated 1½ miles southwest of Lea.
May Hill
Peak
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
May Hill is a prominent English hill between Gloucester and Ross-on-Wye. Its summit, on the western edge of Gloucestershire and its northern slopes in Herefordshire, is distinguishable by a clump of trees on its summit, which forms an official Site of Special Scientific Interest. May Hill is situated 2½ miles east of Lea.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Boxbush and Ariconium.
Boxbush
Village
Photo: Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Boxbush is a village in Gloucestershire, England, which is 5 miles south-west of Newent.
Ariconium
Locality
Photo: Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ariconium was a road station of Roman Britain mentioned in Iter XIII of the Iter Britanniarum of the Antonine Itineraries. It was located at Bury Hill in the parish of Weston under Penyard, about 3 miles east of Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, and about 15 miles southeast of Hereford. Ariconium is situated 1½ miles northwest of Lea.
Aston Ingham
Village
Photo: Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Aston Ingham is a village in south-eastern Herefordshire, England, near Newent and about 7 miles east of Ross-on-Wye. The population of the village at the 2011 census was 398. Aston Ingham is situated 2 miles northeast of Lea.
Lea
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Lea, Herefordshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.89359° or 51° 53′ 37″ northLongitude
-2.49695° or 2° 29′ 49″ westPopulation
823Elevation
367 feet (112 metres)Open location code
9C3VVGV3+C6OpenStreetMap ID
node 835926216OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2644766Wikidata ID
Q15616186
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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: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.