Leigh may refer to:
Places
In England
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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
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Leigh, Staffordshire
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Leigh, Surrey
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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
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Leigh-on-Mendip, Somerset (also known as Leigh upon Mendip)
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Leigh Delamere, Wiltshire
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Leigh Green, Kent
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Leigh Park, Hampshire
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Leigh Sinton, 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
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Little Leigh, Cheshire
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Little Leighs, Essex
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North Leigh
North Leigh is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish about northeast of Witney in Oxfordshire. The parish includes the Hamlet (place), hamlet of East End and since 1932 has also included the hamlet of Wilcote. The United Kingd ...
, Oxfordshire
Elsewhere
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Leigh, County Tipperary, Ireland
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Leigh, Nebraska, United States
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Leigh, New South Wales, in
Bellingen Shire, Australia
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Leigh, New Zealand
* Leigh, Texas, United States, the location of historic site
Mimosa Hall
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Leigh Canyon and
Leigh Lake, Wyoming, United States
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Leigh River (Victoria)
The Leigh River (or Waywatcurtan in the Wathaurong Aboriginal language) is a perennial river of the Lake Corangamite, Corangamite catchment, located in the Central Highlands (Victoria), Central Highlands region of the Australian state of Victor ...
, Australia
Other uses
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Leigh (name)
Leigh ( ) is both an English surname and a unisex given name meaning "meadow" and "delicate".
Surname
* Alex Leigh (born 1978), English fashion model
* Augusta Leigh (1783–1851), only daughter of John "Mad Jack" Byron
* Benjamin W. Leigh (17 ...
, a surname and given name
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Baron Leigh of Stoneleigh, Warwickshire, England
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Leigh & Orange, Hong Kong
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Leigh Leopards, a rugby league football club in Greater Manchester
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Leigh's disease, a rare neurometabolic disorder of the central nervous system
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Leigh Light
The Leigh Light (L/L) was a British World War II era anti-submarine device used in the Battle of the Atlantic. It was a powerful (22 million candelas) carbon arc searchlight of diameter fitted to a number of the British Royal Air Force' ...
, an antisubmarine device used in World War II
See also
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LEA (disambiguation)
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Leah (disambiguation)
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Lee (disambiguation)
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Austen-Leigh
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