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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.

Thickley Bank

Other OS name in the Parish of Shirebrook

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) , cf. Thikclif 1413 DbCh , Thickleys 1611Senior , ' cliff with a dense growth or thicket ' , v. þicce 1 , clif ; later forms show the common development of clif to ley .