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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.

Sunny Leys

Other OS name in the Parish of Houghton on the Hill

Etymology

, 1854, 1907, 1941Surv , 1878 PK , v. sunni , leys ; on a south - facing hillside which catches the midday sunshine .