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.

Pleckley

Other OS name in the Parish of Sixpenny Handley

Historical Forms

  • Pleckey (sic) 1841 TA

Etymology

, Pleckey (sic)1841TA , v. plek ' small plot ofground ' , lēah ' wood, clearing ' .