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Copeley Hill

B24 - Grid reference SP094903

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A name of unknown origin near Spaghetti Junction. The second element ley may derive from the Anglo-Saxon word for a woodland clearing. A house named Copeley stood here and Copeley Lodge was here by 1832. The road, Copeley Hill was cut in 1862.


See also Gravelly Hill.

 

  

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