124 liiE.sUALE PLACE-NAM IJS. 



" Laylands, grass ridges in common fields, arable lands that 

 have been suffered to lay down in grass, hence lay, and probably 

 ley and leigh." Eng. Dial. Soc, Midland Station and E. Yorks. 



"L«y, a very large pond. In central part of Suffolk a coarse 

 old pasture is called a ley." Vocab. E. Anglia. 



" Z«y, pasture land, generally so called after clover, a clover- 

 lay." 



" Cow-lays, a lea or meadow where cows are kept." Isle of 

 "Wight Glossary. 



Examples : — 



Barnley — lea near the barn. 



Blakeley — black lea. 



Bowlees and Bow Leys — Bow ley s= curved pastures, Bowbank 

 =winding hill. Bell. There is a double bend of the road here, 

 and a bridge is crossed. 



Broadley — the broad lea. Broadley's Hill and Broadley's Gate. 



Cowley — cow pasture. 



Cronkley — In Atkinson's Hist, of Cleveland, vol. i , p. 263, is 

 mentioned a place in Cleveland, in Danby, called Crunkley, 

 which Mr. A. agrees with Young in identifying with Crumhec- 

 Uve, and cronh, in Manx, is hill ; clif, clyf, in A.-S., is cliff, deep 

 descent. See Ceonkley. 



Hawkesley — of the hawk. 



Keisley— Kye's-ley, Cow pasture. 



Ley Seat — Moory Lea. 



Longley — the long lea. 



Shipley — of the sheep. 



Stotley — of the stot, or young bullock. 



Strickley — perhaps from A.-S. strac, strcec, straight, or siric, 

 plague. 



Whorley — enclosed lea, quarry lea. 



Ornelly — Orne-ly=Orne's land. Bell 



Ling. Ltng. 



Icel. lyng, modern l^ngi, ling, heather ; Dan. lynff, 

 Swed. IJuny, ib. ; Suio-Goth. Ijunff, erica. 



