The story
- Old English · derived fromSeaxpenn“Saxon hill”
- Old English · derived fromhēan lēa“(at the) high clearing”
- English todaySixpenny Handley
Recorded as Hanlege (Domesday Book, 1086) from Old English hēan lēa (“(at the) high clearing”, dative); and as Sexpennyhanley in 1575, from an old hundred named in Old English Seaxpenn (“Saxon hill”), altered by folk etymology to the unrelated word sixpenny.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.