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Survey of English Place-Names

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Thurle Down and Thurle Grange

Other OS name in the Parish of Streatley

Etymology

: it is probably unwise to speculate in the absence of early forms , but if this is an old name it might be þȳrel ' hole ' , possibly sometimes ' hollow ' . Thurle Grange lies in a slight hollow in the floor of a narrow valley .