Lea nr Mitcheldean and Lea Bailey nr Hope Mansell (+map refs) (General)

by slowhands , proud of his ancient Dean Forest roots, Sunday, February 28, 2010, 08:35 (5163 days ago) @ Haydn

Lea is a village on the Herefordshire / Gloucestershire border, on the main road between Gloucester and Ross on Wye. North of Mitcheldean, and Wigpool Common. http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/GLS/Lea/index.html
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Lea Bailey is an area West of Wigpool Common and East of Hope Mansell.
Its name is associated with a wooded Inclosure, and number of cottages spread out in that area and Lea Bailey Farm. Its generally thought of as within East dean, however it was a Tithing in its own right and a detached part of Newland.
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Lea Bailey tithing, where Newland parish officers had administered relief only intermittently and had never levied poor rates, relieved its own poor from the late 17th century. (fn. 11) It came to be regarded as a separate parish and in 1836 became part of the new Herefordshire poor-law union of Ross. (fn. 12) In the 1880s Lea Bailey was dismembered and its constituent parts added to various adjoining parishes

From: 'Forest of Dean: Local government and public services', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 5: Bledisloe Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean (1996), pp. 377-381. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=23269 Date accessed: 28 February 2010.

LEA BAILEY is a tything of this parish, in Ross union, containing, by the census of 1861, 231, and in 1871, 253 inhabitants. It forms a portion of the Ecclesiastical district of Holy Trinity, East Dean, and consists chiefly of scattered groups of houses, lying between Cinderford and Mitcheldean Road Station on the Ross and Hereford Railway.
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The Purlieu is between Lydney and Blakeney , on the old Roman road, linking Gloucester and Chepstow.
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