Etymology

Otley

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Today it means: A market town and civil parish with a town council in the Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2045). Full definition →

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The story

From the unattested Old English personal name *Otta + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).

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