Leechtown (Q14874656)

  • matcher place: Vancouver Island (relation 2249770)
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  • Wikipedia: English
  • English Wikipedia categories: British Columbia gold rushes, Canadian gold rushes, Ghost towns in British Columbia, Mining communities in British Columbia, Southern Vancouver Island
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Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Leechtown is at the confluence of the Leech River into the Sooke River in southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The ghost town, off BC Highway 1 is about 59 kilometres (37 mi) by road northwest of Victoria.

Wikidata location: 48.4833, -123.7170 view on OSM or edit on OSM

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node: Leechtown (OSM), 2.18 km from Wikidata [show tags]
name: Leechtown
place: locality
wikidata: Q14874656

wikidata match: Q14874656

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locality (Q3257686) place=locality
town (Q3957) place=town
village (Q532) place=village

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Ghost towns in British Columbia place=suburb, place=town, place=village