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Lexden
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Lexden is a suburb of Colchester in Essex, England, lying approximately west of the city centre. It has a public house called the Crown. The parish church of St Leonard's (Church of England) is dedicated to Leonard of Noblac, the patron saint of prisoners.
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- Locality
- Colchester
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
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- Instance of
- suburb
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Colchester
- Population
- 5549
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- Jaqueline Court, Lexden - geograph.org.uk - 1502167.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01206
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- Lexden
- postal code
- CO3
- P8168
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- OS grid reference
- TL970247
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Lexden is a suburb of Colchester in Essex, England, lying approximately west of the city centre. It has a public house called the Crown. The parish church of St Leonard's (Church of England) is dedicated to Leonard of Noblac, the patron saint of prisoners.
Lexden was historically a separate village and parish. "Læxadyne" is Old English for "Leaxa's valley"; the name has also been previously recorded as Lessendon, Lassendene and Læxadyne. Lexden gave its name to one of the historic hundreds of Essex, referred to as the "Hundred of Lassendene" in the Domesday Book of 1086. The parish was included in the borough boundaries of Colchester from at least the 14th century.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lexden” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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