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Leigh (), town (1991 pop. 42,627), Wigan metropolitan district, NW England, in the Greater Manchester metropolitan area. Industries include cotton and rayon mills, metalworks, and machinery and electrical goods plants.


A common name, ‘(place at) the wood or woodland clearing’, OE lēah; examples include: Leigh Kent. Lega (c.1100). Leigh Surrey. Leghe late 12th cent. Leigh Wigan. Legh (1276). Leigh Worcestershire Beornothesleah (972), Lege (1086) (DB). ‘Belonging to a man called Beornnōth’ in the 10th cent. spelling. Leigh, Abbots North Somerset Lege (1086) (DB). Affix from its early possession by the Abbot of St Augustine's Bristol. Leigh, Bessels Oxfordshire Leie (1086) (DB), Bessilles Lee (1538). Manorial affix from the Besyles family, here in the 15th cent. Leigh, North & Leigh, South Oxfordshire Lege (1086) (DB), Northleg (1225), Suthleye early 13th cent. Leigh-on-Sea Southend-on-Sea Legra [sic] (1086) (DB), Legha (1226). Leigh Sinton Worcestershire, see Sinton. Leigh-upon-Mendip Somerset. Leage (c.1100). See Mendip Hills.

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In fiction

  • Amyas Leigh, fictional character
  • Sir Leigh Teabing, fictional character in the popular 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code and the 2006 film based on it
  • Lorelai "Rory" Leigh Gilmore, fictional character in the popular television series Gilmore Girls

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Medicine

  • Leigh syndrome, a rare neurometabolic disorder of the central nervous system

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