Evening All - The name HOOLE in 1860 was recorded as being given to two places, one is a village and township in Plemonstall parish Cheshire, the 2nd a parish in the Preston district of Lancashire. There is also a Hooley Hill village in the Audenshaw division of Ashton-under-Lyne parish Lancashire. The 2nd one consists of a village and two townships, the village being named Much Hoole. The townships are Much Hoole and Little Hoole. >From this it doesn't seem to support the name Hoole meaning high? I would think the name to be a corruption of some very ancient name given to that area of Cheshire and Lancashire maybe in Saxon times??? Kind Regards Roy LD Cox WEB: www.coxresearcher.com/index.htm Member of the Somerset Archealogical & Natural History Society No. 1066 (And All That!) http://www.sanhs.org -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Yvonne Purdy Sent: 25 January 2007 16:43 To: [email protected] Subject: [OEL] HOOLE Dear all, >From an old map (c1600s) Wirral, there are a couple of field names which start with Hoole. Hoolerakehey and Hoole Baker Lane. Does Hoole mean 'high'? Thank you for any help. Regards, Yvonne ==================================== WEB PAGE: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~oel/ ARCHIVES: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=OLD-ENGLISH ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message