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| | History of English Place-Names |
 | | Simplex forms are represented by Lea (Derbyshire) and Eye (Cambridgeshire) from the Old English elements leah meaning variously "wood, woodland clearing or glade, later pasture, meadow" (Mills, p. |
 | | The waves of conquest and settlement were accompanied by new languages, each of which left their mark on English placenames. |
 | | There are the broad brushstrokes of the landscape hills, valleys, forests and bodies of water in all their variety. |
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