New Leake

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New Leake
Lincolnshire

St Jude's Mission Church, New Leake
Location
Grid reference: TF392569
Location: 53°5’29"N, -0°4’42"E
Data
Population: 323  (2011)
Post town: Boston
Postcode: PE22
Dialling code: 01205
Local Government
Council: East Lindsey
Parliamentary
constituency:
Boston and Skegness

New Leake is a village in Lindsey, the northern part of Lincolnshire. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 323. The village if found nine miles north of Boston, and ten miles east of Coningsby.

St Judes Mission church stands in New Leake. It appears to have been built and opened around 1896.[1][2] It is part of the Stickney Group of churches[3]

East Fen Chapel was a Primitive Methodist chapel originally built in 1831, but was replaced by a new building in 1855. It closed in 1969.[4]

New Leake primary school was built in 1890, originally as the New Leake Board School, by the United School Board of the parishes of Old and New Leake (1881-1903).

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