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Re: Prehistoric origins confirmed!
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No - that's what the hills used to be called.

That's the Old English spelling - or the way it's rendered nowadays. Other versions, seen in placenames particularly, are Law, Lowe and Howe. 'Lowenbrau' - Round hills brewery (perhaps). Sometimes the hills have two names, a local one and an official one. Our hill in Bolton - entirely geological though it has a barrow on its flank - is both known as Sugarloaf Hill, to Boltonians, and Brown Lowe, to Ordnance Survey.

Blakey, the name, still associates with the On The Buses inspector, for me.


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Posted by StoneGloves
5th June 2011ce
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