The Long Eau drains a small catchment of 22.3 km2.[2]
The placename element Eau for a river is common in Lincolnshire and comes not from the French, but from Old English Ea - a river, related to modern Germanic Aa.[3]
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^(PDF). The Steeping, Great Eau and Long Eau Catchment Abstraction Management Strategy. Environment Agency. January 2007. p. 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 September 2012. Retrieved 18 May 2013. (map)
^Partridge, Eric (5 September 1977). Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English. Routledge. p. 129. ISBN9780415050777. Retrieved 18 May 2013.
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