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Survey of English Place-Names

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Lollaycross

Early-attested site in the Parish of Droitwich

Etymology

This cross is mentioned in the VCH (iii. 80) and would seem to have been identical with 'The Cross,' the old name given to the point where the Alcester-Kidderminster road crosses that from Selly Oak to Worcester. Two hundred yards south-south- east on the Holloway is a field called Lullo 's which must be the Loulleleye , Lulleleye of AD iii (1333 and 1343) and have given rise to the name Lollay Cross. The name means 'Lulla's clearing,' v. leah .