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Survey of English Place-Names

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Birleyhay

Other OS name in the Parish of Eckington

Etymology

, 1787Hewitt , v. (ge)hæg . It is apparently named from Birley supra 210 and is quite unconnected with the preceding name , the two places being in opposite parts of the parish .