Linacre

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