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A glen is a valley, typically one that is long, deep, and often glacially U-shaped, or a waterway running through such a valley. The word comes from the Irish Language/Scottish Gaelic language word gleann. As the name of a river, it is thought to derive from the Welsh language glan meaning clean, or gleindid meaning purity.
It occurs often in place names such as Great Glen and Glen Coe in Scotland, Glendalough in Ireland, Yarra Glen and Glengowrie in Australia, and Glen Norman in Canada.
Glen may refer to one of the following settlements:
- Glen, Mississippi, United States
- Glen, New York, United States
- Great Glen, Leicestershire and Glen Parva both in Leicestershire, England
Glen may refer to one of the following geographical features:
- Glen Water, Ayrshire, Scotland
- Glen River, Quebec, Canada
- Mount Glen, British Columbia, Canada
- River Glen, Lincolnshire, England
- River Glen, Northumberland, England
The Glens often refers to the Glens of Antrim in Northern Ireland.
Glen may refer to one of the following people:
- James Allison Glen (1877-1950), a Canadian politician
- John Glen (1932-), an English film director
- Cornell Glen (1980-), a football (soccer) player
- Marla Glen (1960-), an American jazz singer
- William Glen (1789 - 1826), a Scottish poet
- Glen, the husband of Sol in Norse mythology
- Glen "Tirakh Draconian" Ojanpera, author of the Eye of the Dragon trilogy
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