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Sixpenny Handley
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English
Alternative forms
en 6d Handley abbreviation archaic
Etymology
Recorded as Hanlege (Domesday Book, 1086) from en ang hēan lēa (at the) high clearing dative; and as Sexpennyhanley in 1575, from an old hundred named in en ang Seaxpenn Saxon hill, altered by folk etymology to the unrelated word en sixpenny.
Proper noun
Sixpenny Handley
en village par/Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge north-east co/Dorset cc/England OS grid ref ST9917.