The story
- Old English · derived fromscēap“sheep”
- English todayShipley
From Old English scēap (“sheep”) + lēah (“meadow, field, pasture”), thus a field for grazing sheep; equivalent to sheep + -ley. Compare Gateley (literally “goat lea”).
Words from the same roots
Old Englishscēap all →
Shepley
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.