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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.

Ryal

Other OS name in the Parish of Sedgefield

Etymology

: terre vaste Ryghill 1382 , cf. the Ryall Field , Ryall 's Fielde Burne 1647 ParlSurv , claus vocat Ryallfeild 1720, 1730HC /CB , Ryall Close abuttan ' super Ryall Burn 1725ib , Ryall Close , High Ryall , Ryall Field 1741Bran , Ryall field , the Ryell field [1749] after 1785ib , Ryalfield 1760ib , v. ryge , hyll .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site