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Loxley.

[[File:|thumb|right|500px|Loxley Church on the Hill; view from the public footpath near Loxley Hall / [hhttps://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/801801 Ian Paterson, 14 May 2008, Creative Commons, via Geograph.]]]

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-01-15. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-07-18.

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".^[1]

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.

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Notes

↑ 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.

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[1] 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.

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 == Background ==
+* [http://www.loxleyvillage.com/ Loxley Village Website]
 * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loxley,_Warwickshire Wikipedia: Warwickshire.]