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.

Whalley Croft

Other OS name in the Parish of Netteswell

Historical Forms

  • Laylands 1777 C
  • Warley c.1240 EASxix

Etymology

is a name still occasionally used for a tenement formerly known as Laylands (1777 C) , and now pulled down . In 1592 it was called Warley Hook ( ER xxxv ) , Wharley Hook (c. 1840 TA) , from the family of William de Warley (c. 1240 EAS xix) .