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Survey of English Place-Names

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Oldleys Plantation

Other OS name in the Parish of Kirkburn

Historical Forms

  • Aldleyhe 1229 FF

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is Aldleyhe 1229 FF . ' Old clearing , ' v. leah . Aldleyhe is the reading of the MS and not Aldlexhe as printed in FF .

Places in the same Parish