Loxley (Stratford-upon-Avon)

Locality
Coordinate	52.174334, -1.624705
Adm. div.	Warwickshire
Vicinity	c. 6 km SW of Stratford-upon-Avon
Type	Settlement
Interest	Literary locale
Status	Extant
First Record	c. 1600

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Loxley.

Loxley Church on the Hill; view from the public footpath near Loxley Hall / Ian Paterson, 14 May 2008, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-01-15. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-06.

The village of Loxley, c. 6 km SW of Stratford-upon-Avon, is first recorded as early as 985. The name means "Locc's clearing or wood". Names derived from it in the area include Loxley Hall, Loxley Road, and Loxley Lane.

Gazetteers

• Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-311.

Sources

• Gover, J.E.B.; Mawer, Allen; Stenton, F.M.; Houghton, F.T. S. The Place-Names of Warwickshire (English Place-Name Society, vol. XIII) (Cambridge, 1936), p.235.

Maps

• 25" O.S. map Warwickshire XLIV.12 (1885; surveyed 1884)
• 25" O.S. map Warwickshire XLIV.12 (1905; rev. 1900) (georeferenced)
• 25" O.S. map Warwickshire XLIV.12 (1905; rev. 1900)
• 25" O.S. map Warwickshire XLIV.12 (1914; rev. 1913)
• 25" O.S. map Warwickshire XLV.9 (1905; rev. 1904)
• 25" O.S. map Warwickshire XLV.9 (1886; surveyed 1885)
• 6" O.S. map Warwickshire XLIV.SE (1884; surveyed 1883)
• 6" O.S. map Gloucestershire II.SE (1904; rev. 1900) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Gloucestershire II.SE (1904; rev. 1900)
• 6" O.S. map Gloucestershire II (1922; rev. 1913)
• 6" O.S. map Gloucestershire II.SE (1922; rev. 1913)
• 6" O.S. map Gloucestershire II.SE (c. 1947; rev. 1938).

Background

• Loxley Village Website
• Wikipedia: Warwickshire.

Also see

• Places named Loxley.

Notes

Warwickshire place-names 

 Place-names