Plealey
Major Settlement in the Parish of Pontesbury
Historical Forms
- Pleyle 1255-6 Ass 1756 PR(H)
- Pleynlegh' 1271-2 Ass
- Plalegh 1490 Ipm
- Plailey 1672 HTR
- Playley 1749 PR(H)
- Pleleye 1542 PR(H) 1601 SBL12706
- Plelye 1564 PR(H)
- Plealey 1615 PR(H)
Etymology
'Play clearing', v. plega , lēah . The reference could be to human sports or to animal mating rituals. Playley represents the modern pronunciation. The same compound has become Playley in Wo, PN Wo 158.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Engine Coppice
- Hinwood
- Edgegrove
- Little Halston
- Shorthill
- Panson
- Wood Hall
- Sydnall Cottage
- Polmere
- Marton
- Nox
- New Ho
- Church Hill Wood
- Malehurst
- Pontesford Hill
- Little Coppice
Other OS name
- Buck's Coppice
- Cruckton Hall
- Hanwood Gate Pool
- Hare and Hounds P.H.
- Hollybank
- Hortonlane Coppice
- Jenkins Coppice
- Moves Coppice
- Hinton Hall, Hinton Plantation
- New Mill
- Clanbrook Bridge
- Lea Cross, Lea Cross Bridge
- Lea Hall
- Trap Cottage
- Coppice Cottages and Ho
- Curtiss Coppice
- Gipsy Coppice
- Moat Hall
- Papermill Coppice
- Slade Lane
- Upper Woodhall Coppice and Lower Woodhall Coppice
- Bank Ho
- Broompatch
- Hall Fm
- Hays Coppice
- Hurst Bank
- Lingcroft Pool and Lingcroft Coppice
- Longden Bridge
- Longden Common
- Longden Coppice
- Longden Manor
- Longdenwood
- the Poplars
- Red Lion Inn
- Rock Cottage
- Roundhouse Fm
- Slang Coppice
- Woodhouse Fm
- Oaks Hall
- Oaks Lodge
- Oaks Wood
- Little Plealey
- Plealey Ho
- Radlith
- Radlith Wd
- Tag's Gutter
- Bridgleys
- Crown P.H.
- Hill Fm
- Horseshoe P.H.
- Mount Pleasant Nursery
- Nills Hill
- Polesgate
- Pontesbury Hill
- the Ring
- Woodhouse
- Brook Ho, Cliffdale Ho, the Grove, Linley Terrace, New Ho, the Poplars, Quarry Villa, Rose Villa, Somerville, South View Villa, White Hall, Willow Ho
- Brookside Ho
- Cherry Hayes Cottages
- Earlsdale, Vch Viii
- the Grove
- Hill Fm
- Lower and Upper Mill
- the Lyd Hole
- Nag's Head P.H.
- Old Lodge
- the Plantation
- Skin Mill Cottage
- Smithy
Major Settlement
- Arscott
- Asterley
- Boycott
- Cruckmeole
- Cruckton
- Edge
- Farley
- Halston
- Hinton
- Lea
- Little Hanwood
- Longden
- Newnham and Polmere
- Oaks
- Pontesbury and Malehurst
- Pontesford
- Sascott
- Sibberscot
- Pontesbury
Field
- Arscott Croft
- Higher Bank
- The Banks
- Upper Bar Lsw
- Barn Gate
- Bins Fd
- Bradleys
- Lower Bromden
- Broom Fd
- Broomy Lsw
- Gorsy Cherrytree Lsw
- Further Chirhayes
- Cinder Croft
- Cockshutt
- Coffins Yd
- Coppice Fd
- Big Cow Lsw
- Croft Ashes
- Big Cross Hill
- Lower Dales
- Dial Croft
- Docky Reans
- Big Dunsdale
- Field Mead
- Firtree Mdw
- Footway Mdw
- Four Gates
- Gaudy Ground
- Further Gorse Patch
- Green Fd
- Halston Mdw
- The Harp
- Hill Pce
- House Mdw
- Lane Croft
- Lincroft
- Little Field
- Little Piece
- Londonderry
- Long Croft
- Long Lsw
- Long Moor
- Lower Mdw
- Marsh Lsw
- Melverley
- New Lsw
- The Nine Swaths
- Further Oak Moor
- Plealey Coppice
- Ponsomer Pool Pce
- Pontesford Fd
- Radlith Bank
- Sawbrooks
- Shop Mead
- Sibberscott Mdw
- Slang Mdw
- Thorn Tree Mdw
- Town Mdw
- Upper Mdw
- Upper Patch
- Wall Lsw
- Well Lsw
- Great Withenall