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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA town and civil parish with a town council in Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ9856). · A village and former municipality in Groningen province, Netherlands. · A surname.
Perhaps of pre-Anglo-Saxon (non-Old English) origin and instead from Celtic; compare Welsh llech and Irish leac (“stone”), both from Proto-Celtic *ɸlikkā. Recorded as Lec in 1086 (DB).
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