Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Leighs, Great

Leighs, Great, par. and vil., Essex, in NW. of co., on river Ter, 6 miles NE. of Chelmsford, 3146 ac., pop. 753; P.O., called Great Leigh.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Great Leighs CP/AP       Essex AncC
Place names: GREAT LEIGH     |     GREAT LEIGHS     |     LEIGHS     |     LEIGHS GREAT
Place: Great Leighs

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