Great Eau

Calceby brook and spring.
The source of the Great Eau

Almost stationary water in a narrow stream in a flat landscape

The Great Eau at Barfen Farm
near to Gayton le Marsh

Tidal river between snowy banks, seen from an overbridge with a helpful notice

Tidal outflow of the Great Eau

The Great Eau is a river in Lincolnshire, England, rising from the Chalk Streams of the Lincolnshire Wolds and running to Saltfleet Haven on the coast. It is joined by its companion stream, the Long Eau.^[1]

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.^[2]

References

↑ "Steeping, Great Eau and Long Eau CAMS area overview" (PDF). The Steeping, Great Eau and Long Eau Catchment Abstraction Management Strategy. Environment Agency. January 2007. p. 3. Retrieved 18 May 2013. (map)
↑ Partridge, Eric (5 Sep 1977). Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English. Routledge. p. 129. Retrieved 18 May 2013.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Great Eau.

"Chalk Streams". Lincolnshire Wolds Countryside Service. 2013. Retrieved 18 May 2013.

Rivers and watercourses of Lincolnshire

Rivers	Ancholme Bain Brant Barlings Eau Bourne Eau River Eau Freshney Glen Great Eau Gwash Humber Long Eau Lymn Nene Rase Slea Torne Trent Waring Welland Witham

Coordinates: 53°25′N 0°13′E / 53.417°N 0.217°E / 53.417; 0.217

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