The Great Eau is a river in

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-west, Leicestershire ...

, England, rising from the Chalk Streams of the

Lincolnshire Wolds The Lincolnshire Wolds are a range of low hills in the county of Lincolnshire, England which run roughly parallel with the North Sea coast, from the Humber Estuary in the north-west to the edge of the Lincolnshire Fens in the south-east. They ar ...

and running to

Saltfleet Haven Saltfleet is a coastal village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is approximately north of Mablethorpe and east of Louth. The village is part of the civil parish of Skidbrooke with Saltfleet Haven, which had a popu ...

on the coast. It is joined by its companion stream, the

Long Eau 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 The Great Eau is a river in Lincolnshire, England, rising from the Chalk Streams of th ...

. 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.

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Great Eau The Great Eau is a river in Lincolnshire, England, rising from the Chalk Streams of the Lincolnshire Wolds The Lincolnshire Wolds are a range of low hills in the county of Lincolnshire, England which run roughly parallel with the North Sea ...

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