Eyre
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Eyre may mean
- a circuit traveled by an itinerant justice in medieval England, or the circuit court he presided over [1], or the right of the king to have such searches conducted. The eyre involved visits and inspections at irregular intervals of the houses of all vassals in the kingdom, and often provoked terror in the populace [2].
Places named Eyre include
- Eyre Highway
- Eyre Bird Observatory
- Eyre Peninsula
- Lake Eyre; also Lake Eyre Basin and Lake Eyre National Park
- Eyre, Isle of Skye
- variant of Éire, the Irish language name for Ireland
- Eyre River, in southwestern France
- Esperance Plains, a biogeographic region of Australia also known as Eyre Botanical District
People named Eyre include
- Damian Eyre
- Edward John Eyre, Australian explorer
- James Eyre
- Richard Eyre
- Stephen Eyre
- Marcus Eyre
- Jehu Eyre, figure of the American Revolution
- Manuel Eyre, figure of the American Revolution and powerful business leader in the early American Republic
See also
- Eyre legend
- Jane Eyre (disambiguation), a novel by Charlotte Brontë, or any of its various adaptations; also, the titular character
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