Leigh may refer to:
Places
In England
Pronounced :
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Leigh, Greater Manchester
Leigh is a town in Greater Manchester, England, on low-lying land northwest of Chat Moss.
Within the boundaries of the Historic counties of England, historic county of Lancashire, Leigh was originally the centre of a large ecclesiastical paris ...
, Borough of Wigan
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Leigh (UK Parliament constituency)
Leigh was a List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies, constituency in Greater Manchester represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the UK Parliament.
From 2019 to 2024, Leigh was held by James Grundy ...
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Leigh-on-Sea
Leigh-on-Sea (), commonly referred to simply as Leigh, is a List of towns in England, town and civil parish within the city of Southend-on-Sea, located in the ceremonial county of Essex, England. In 2011 it had a population of 22,509.
Geograph ...
, Essex
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Leigh, Dorset
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Leigh, Gloucestershire
Leigh is a village and civil parish in the district of Tewkesbury, in the county of Gloucestershire, England. As of 2019, it has a population of 325.
History
The name "Leigh" means 'The wood/clearing'. Leigh was recorded in the Domesday Book ...
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Leigh, Kent
Leigh , historically spelled Lyghe, is a village and a civil parish located in the Sevenoaks district of Kent, England. It is located six miles (10 km) south of Sevenoaks town and three miles (5 km) west of Tonbridge.
There is a larg ...
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Leigh, Staffordshire
Leigh is a civil parish in the borough of East Staffordshire in Staffordshire, England. The parish includes the village of Church Leigh, together with the settlements of Withington, Upper Leigh, Lower Leigh, Morrilow Heath, Middleton Green, Dods ...
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Leigh, Surrey
Leigh is a village and civil parish in Surrey, between Reigate, Dorking and Charlwood in the east of Mole Valley district. The village centre is suburban and its remainder is agricultural, interspersed by four satellite clustered localities: D ...
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Leigh, Wiltshire
Leigh is a village and civil parish in north Wiltshire, England, southeast of Ashton Keynes and west of Cricklade. It is on the edge of the Cotswold Water Park and near to the county border with Gloucestershire. The parish includes the hamle ...
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Leigh, Worcestershire
Leigh is a village and civil parish (with a parish council shared with Bransford) in the Malvern Hills district of the county of Worcestershire, England.
With just a few hundred inhabitants the parish lies on the A4103, the main Worcester to ...
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Leigh-on-Mendip, Somerset (also known as Leigh upon Mendip)
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Leigh Delamere
Leigh Delamere is a small village in the civil parish of Grittleton in the English county of Wiltshire, about northwest of the town of Chippenham. The M4 motorway passes some 250 metres to the south, and the motorway's Leigh Delamere service ...
, Wiltshire
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Leigh Green
Leigh Green is a hamlet southeast of the town of Tenterden in Kent
Kent is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Essex across the Thames Estuary to the north, the Strait of Dover to t ...
, Kent
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Leigh Park
Leigh Park is a large suburb (population 27,500) of Havant, in Hampshire, England. It currently forms the bulk or whole of four electoral wards: Battins, Bondfields, Barncroft and Warren Park (generally referred to as 'The Warren').
Staunton ...
, Hampshire
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Leigh Sinton
Leigh Sinton is a hamlet in the Malvern Hills district of the county of Worcestershire, England. It is at the south end of the civil parish of Leigh
Leigh may refer to:
Places In England
Pronounced :
* Leigh, Greater Manchester, Borough ...
, Worcestershire
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Leigh Woods, Somerset
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Abbots Leigh, Somerset
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East Leigh
East is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth.
Etymology
As in other languages, the word is formed from the fact that eas ...
, Devon
* Little Leigh, Cheshire
* Little Leighs, Essex
* North Leigh, Oxfordshire
Elsewhere
* Leigh, County Tipperary, Ireland
* Leigh, Nebraska, United States
* Leigh, New South Wales, in Bellingen Shire, Australia
* Leigh, New Zealand
* Leigh, Texas, United States, the location of historic site Mimosa Hall (Leigh, Texas), Mimosa Hall
* Leigh Canyon and Leigh Lake, Wyoming, United States
* Leigh River (Victoria), Australia
Other uses
* Leigh (name), a surname and given name
* Baron Leigh of Stoneleigh, Warwickshire, England
* Leigh & Orange, Hong Kong
* Leigh Leopards, a rugby league football club in Greater Manchester
* Leigh's disease, a rare neurometabolic disorder of the central nervous system
* Leigh Light, an antisubmarine device used in World War II
See also
* LEA (disambiguation)
* Leah (disambiguation)
* Lee (disambiguation)
* Austen-Leigh
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