Sixpenny Handley

proper noun

A village in Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge parish, north-east Dorset, England (OS grid ref ST9917).

OriginOld English hēan lēa →
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Meanings

proper noun

alternative abbreviation archaic 6d Handley

  1. A village in Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge parish, north-east Dorset, England (OS grid ref ST9917).

Origin

  1. Old EnglishSeaxpenn“Saxon hill”
  2. Old Englishhēan lēa“(at the) high clearing”
  3. EnglishSixpenny 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.

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