Hyde Lea

Hyde Lea borders the southern boundary of Castle Church parish.

By 1788 Hyde Lea common was ringed by small encroachments and by about 1840 there were a few cottages there, several dating from the late 18th century.

Hyde Lea boasted a school from 1863, but it closed in 1980, children only staying there between the ages of 5 and 7 by this time.

In the 1980s the Diocese allowed the community to use the school as a village hall on licence until the trustees purchased it in the early 1990s.

[2] It contains a Scheduled Monument in the form of a moated site and fishpond used for water management at the head of the valley of Rising Brook.