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Note: This article concerns a word "Lea." For the saint, view Saint Lea.
Lea is an Old English word meaning a "clearing", an "open piece of
grassland" or even the "grove". These are commons within English town list, northerly it
typically utilizes a pure form of '-lea' when south it typically uses
the changed spelling like "-ley", "-leigh" or even "-lee".
Examples come:
Wembley - Wembla's Clearing (Greater London)
Purley - Peartree Grove (Greater London)
Hadleigh - Heather Clearing (Essex)
However note these exceptions:
Beverley - Beaver Stream (East Riding of Yorkshire)
Bewdley - Beautiful Place (beau lieu) (Worcestershire)
View also
Lea, Gainsborough - a place within Lincolnshire
Lea, Lincolnshire
Lea, Derbyshire
Lea, Shropshire
Lea, Herefordshire
Lea, Wiltshire
A word is however todays around poetic language, meaning "meadow" or even "pasture".
Lea is besides:
the Jewish alternate transliteration for Leah.
an surrogate spelling for the River Lee.
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