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1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 133 Fourey-leet, the crossing of two roads—four ways meeting—or as commonly called ‘four cross ways’.

1839 C. Clark John Noakes & Mary Styles 4 From Mauldon toun to Keldon 'tis, An' 'gin a four releet.

1863 East Anglian Notes & Queries Jan. 294 There are several places in Suffolk..where two roads cross each other, which go by the name of the Four élite, or eleet or perhaps releet.

1919 Essex Rev. July 123 For the meeting of three roads there was another term, viz., the three eleet or releet... Quite recently I asked my father, whose memory goes back to the early ‘forties’, if he could remember any junction in our neighbourhood to which he had heard the term [three eleet] specifically applied, and he at once cited the junction at Langford.

1950 M. J. Becker Thirsty Oak 147 You should ha' taken the Sedgley road at the four eleet—you have to go two miles back and then it's four miles on.

1960 A. O. D. Claxton Suffolk Dial. 20th Cent. (ed. 2) 78 Three-E-Leet, a junction of three roads. There is a ‘three-e-leet’ Farm at Great Bricet, near Needham Market.

2009 Walton Conservation Area Managem. Plan (Tendring District Council) Mar. 14 Many of the local retailers are concentrated around the ‘Six Releet’, which is the local name for the wide junction of Old Pier Street, Suffolk Street, Newgate Street and Station Street.

2013 S. Hartwell Childhood & School Memories in www.messybeast.com (O.E.D. archive) The staggered crossroads at the top end of the street [at Bocking Churchstreet, Essex] was known as the Four Releet.