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.

Higher Harpley & Lower Harpley, Harpley

Other OS name in the Parish of Mottram in Longdendale

Historical Forms

  • Great Harpley & Little Harpley 1840 ib
  • Arp(e)le(gh) 1345 Eyre
  • Low Fold 1831 Bry

Etymology

, Great Harpley & Little Harpley 1840ib , Arp (e )le (gh )1345Eyre , from lēah 'a clearing, a woodland glade', with hearpe 'a harp',in some undetermined sense. Lower Harpley is Low Fold 1831 Bry , cf. Cockers supra .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site