Ees (place name)
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Ees (plural of ee) is an archaic English term for a piece of land liable to flood, or water meadow. It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon ¯eg (or ¯ieg) meaning "'island', also used of a piece of firm land in a fen and of land situated on a stream or between streams".[1] It is still used locally in Greater Manchester to indicate former water meadows and flood basins adjoining the River Mersey: Chorlton Ees, Sale Ees and Stretford Ees. The term is also modified to "eye" and "eea" in the name of Park Eye (or Park Eea).[2]
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- ^ Ekwall, Eilert (1940) The Concise Dictionary of English Place-names; 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press; p. 154
- ^ Lloyd, John M. (1972) The Township of Chorlton-cum-Hardy. Manchester: E. J. Morten ISBN 0-901598-26-7; pp. 3-4 (Lloyd gives the derivation as from "ea", (=water or a river) )
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