Bexley

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A suburban town in the borough of Bexley, south-east Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ4973).
  2. 2
    A London borough of Greater London.
  3. 3
    A former township in the former Victoria County, now City of Kawartha Lakes, Ontario, Canada.
  4. 4
    An unincorporated community in George County, Mississippi, United States.
  5. 5
    A city in Franklin County, Ohio, United States, a suburb of Columbus.
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  1. 6
    An eastern suburb of Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand.
  2. 7
    A rural locality north of the Waimakariri River, Canterbury, New Zealand.
  3. 8
    A suburb of Sydney in Bayside council area, New South Wales, Australia.
  4. 9
    A female given name.

Etymology

From Old English byxe (“box tree”) + leah (“wood”), equivalent to box + -ley (“lea”).

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Bexley Northgreater london

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