Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• the Flabrick Heays 1645 Sheaf

• Flay-brick, Further Flaybrick & Lower Flaybrick, Flaybrick Hill Common 1824 Lawton

• Flaybrick Hill 1831 Bry 1842 OS

Etymology

Flaybrick Hill (lost), Upper Flaybrick Rd (100–295895), the Flabrick Heays 1645 Sheaf, Flay-brick , Further Flaybrick & Lower Flaybrick , Flaybrick Hill Common 1824Lawton , Flaybrick Hill 1831 Bry, 1842 OS, from brekka 'a hill, a slope' and either flaga 'a slab of stone, a flagstone', or, perhaps more likely, flag 'a turf, a sod', with (ge)hæg, hyll , commun . The dialect forms flay , flee appear also in the f.ns. Fleas , Fly 's 322, 320infra .