Long Eau Explained

The Long Eau is a river in Lincolnshire, England, rising from the Chalk Streams of the Lincolnshire Wolds and joining its companion stream, the Great Eau south of Saltfleetby All Saints.^[1]

The Long Eau drains a small catchment of 22.3 km2.^[2]

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.^[3]

External links

• Web site: Chalk Streams. Lincolnshire Wolds Countryside Service. 18 May 2013. 2013.

53.3816°N 0.196°W

Notes and References

1. Web site: Steeping, Great Eau and Long Eau CAMS area overview. The Steeping, Great Eau and Long Eau Catchment Abstraction Management Strategy. Environment Agency. 18 May 2013. 3. January 2007. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120905201417/http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/static/documents/Business/Steeping_CAMS_Consult_Doc_part1.pdf. 5 September 2012. (map)
2. Web site: Long Eau . 2 June 2013.
3. Book: Partridge, Eric. Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English. Routledge. 129. 18 May 2013. 5 Sep 1977. 9780415050777.