The story
Perhaps a form of soily hill: the parish church of St Alphege was built on a hill of stiff red marl.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Perhaps a form of soily hill: the parish church of St Alphege was built on a hill of stiff red marl.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.