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Survey of English Place-Names

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Foxlydiate

Early-attested site in the Parish of Tardebigge

Historical Forms

  • Foxhuntleyates c.1300 Pat
  • Foxenlydeyate 1464 Pat
  • Foxlydiate 1591,1594 Wills
  • Fox Liddet 1675 Ogilby

Etymology

'Swing-gate used by the fox-hunt or hunters,' v. hlidgeat and cf. Lydiate Lane in Hasbury supra 295. In the metes of Feckenham Forest (1300Pat ) we have mention of Foxhuntwey voc. le Ruggeway , v. supra 4.