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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.

The Strye

Other OS name in the Parish of Repps, North and South

Etymology

( to be connected with stry ' to spoil, waste ' and ' a wastefulperson ' , stryance ' wastefulness ' , evidenced in EAngl and Kent, EDD and Forby s.v . ) .