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Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Copley

Other OS name in the Parish of Mottram in Longdendale

Historical Forms

  • Coppelegh 1345 Eyre

Etymology

, 1831 ib , Coppelegh 1345Eyre (p) , probably from copped but the OE  pers.n. Coppa is possible , v. lēah ' a clearing ' .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site