The Great Eau is a river in

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (), abbreviated ''Lincs'', is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber regions of England. It is bordered by the East Riding of Yorkshire across the Humber estuary to th ...

, England, rising from the Chalk Streams of the

Lincolnshire Wolds The Lincolnshire Wolds which also includes the Lincolnshire Wolds National Landscape are a range of low hills in the county of Lincolnshire, England which runs roughly parallel with the North Sea coast, from the Humber Estuary just west of the t ...

and running to Saltfleet Haven on the coast. It is joined by its companion stream, the Long Eau. The placename element ''Eau'' for a river is common in Lincolnshire and comes not from the French, but from Old English ''Ea'' – a river, related to modern Germanic Aa.

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* Great Eau {{England-river-stub