holloway

plural holloways · alternative hollow way

1. UKA road or track that is significantly lower than the land on either side, not formed by recent engineering but possibly of much greater age.

   I enjoyed very much last week walking down that sunken track between Symondsbury and North Chideock--is that what one would call a 'holloway'?

   2008 December 1, <johngoldfine@gmail.com>, “quarry cross north of Chideock, Dorset”, in uk.rec.walking (Usenet), message-ID <54237f3b-8f48-47b0-9220-9d95208686f7@k39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>

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   The first pronounced rise in the ridge is succeeded by Oldgate Nick: there isn't even a footpath crossing, but it is recognisable as a holloway. Here crossed a saltway from Cheshire rising from 5altersford Hall in the upper Todd valley

   1982, Mark Richards, High Peak Walks, page 158

   Well, I see the road before me; sometimes I can see a bit further because I'm standing on a hill, sometimes I'm at the bottom of a holloway and have no idea even what lies on the other side of the hedge.

   2004 August 30, Catja Pafort <greenknight@cix.co.uk.invalid>, “Re: Tight third - an invention of the 20th century?”, in rec.arts.sf.composition (Usenet), message-ID <1gjbv1i.z05lgf1e1xyjmN%greenknight@cix.co.uk.invalid>

   In different regions they go by different names — bostels, grundles, shutes — but are all holloways. Of course, few are in use now. They are too narrow and too slow to suit modern travel. But they are also too deep to be filled in and farmed over

   2010, Bill Bryson, Icons of England, page 240

   Six years later, after Roger Deakin's early death, Robert Macfarlane returned to the holloway with the artist Stanley Donwood and writer Dan Richards. The book is about those journeys and that landscape.

   2014, Robert Macfarlane, Dan Richards, Holloway

   Synonyms: sunken lane, bostel, grundle, shute

plural Holloways

1. countableuncountableA village in Dethick, Lea and Holloway parish, Amber Valley borough, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3256).
2. countableuncountableAn urban area of London in the borough of Islington, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ306859).
3. countableuncountableA hamlet in East Knoyle parish, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST876133).
4. countableuncountableA minor city in Swift County, Minnesota, United States.
5. countableuncountableA village in Belmont County, Ohio, United States.
6. countableuncountableA habitational surname from Old English.