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Survey of English Place-Names

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Copley Hill

Other OS name in the Parish of Birstall

Historical Forms

  • Coppelay 1336 YDvii

Etymology

, 1849TA , Coppelay 1336 YD vii(p) , v. copp , lēah ; this is the name of a hillside , but since the hill is not the peaked hilltop which this p.n. usually describes , the p.n. may contain Copley as a surname .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement