Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LEA-BRIDGE

LEA-BRIDGE, a quondam hamlet, now a part of Leytonstone, in Leyton parish, Essex; on the river Lea at the boundary with Middlesex, and on the Eastern Counties railway, 5¾ miles NE by N of London. It has a station on the railway, and a post office‡ under Leyton, London NE.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a quondam hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Leyton AP/CP       Essex AncC
Place: Lea Bridge

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