English Explanatory Dictionary

Sixpenny Handley

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

Sixpenny Handley

Etymology

Recorded as Hanlege 1086 (DB), and Sexpennyhanley in 1575, from an old hundred named Sexpene (hill of the Saxons).

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