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Linacre

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Linacre is a word deriving from Middle English līn ('flax') and aker ('field'), thus originally denoting places associated with a flax-field. It may refer to:

  • Linacre (surname), including a list of people with the name
  • Linacre College, Oxford, a postgraduate college of Oxford University
  • Linacre, an area west of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England
  • Linacre, the central area of Bootle (formerly known as Bootle-cum-Linacre), Merseyside, England
  • Linacre (ward), an electoral ward of the Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council, Merseyside, England