English Place-name Society

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.

Boiley Fm

Other OS name in the Parish of Killamarsh

Historical Forms

  • Boyleye 1570 ExchKR

Etymology

, Boyleye 1570ExchKR , the first element perhaps being the ordinary word boy used as a pers. n. , but cf. Boythorpe supra 234 . v. boi(a) , lēah .