Lea
Major Settlement in the Parish of Dethick, Lea and Holloway
Historical Forms
- Lede 1086 DB
- Lea 1154–9 Darley 1228 FF
- Lea juxta Wirkesworth 1328 SR 1577 DbAi
- La Le(e), le Le(e) 1237,1301 FF 1325 Ipm 1326 Cl 1330 Ass 1573 HMC
- Le(e) iuxta Dethek 1301 FF 1350,1354,1357,1360,1362 Crich
- Le(e) iuxta Wirkesworth 1330 Ass
- Le(e) iuxta Cromford 1350 Crich
- le Leghe 1374 Cl
- le Leyh 1519 DbAxix
Etymology
'The clearing', v. lēah , distinguished in some forms as near Dethick, Cromford, supra 359, 358, and Wirksworth infra 413, to avoid confusion with Lea Hall infra 386.
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- Beamore Wood
- Catley Well
- Cockhill Plantation
- Cross Lanes
- Dethick Balk
- Dethick Common
- Dethick Heyes
- Gregory Dam and Gregory Spring
- High Lane
- Hollins Wood
- Holt Wood
- Leaholme
- Leahurst
- Leashaw Fm
- Mill Ho
- Moor Wood
- Nether Holloway
- Patchett Wood
- Redhill Fm
- Shaw Lane and Shaw Plantation
- Sledgegate Lane
- Swinepark Wood
- Upper Holloway