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Cleethorpes

 
Place Names: Cleethorpes
  • Location: England/UK
  • Variant names: Thorpe, Clethorpe
'Hamlets near Clee' from the Old Scandinavian thorp 'hamlet' or 'outlying farmstead' and Clee from the Old English clæg 'clay', thus a 'Hamlet near a Place where there is Clay'.

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