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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.

Speetley Cottage

Other OS name in the Parish of Barlborough

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) , cf. Spekeleylane 1290 RadCh , Speakley 1782 Fairbanks perhaps ' speech clearing ' , v. spēc 1 , lēah , cf. Spetchley (PN Wo 165–6) .