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From 'Keele - An introduction to the Parish & University' - By Michael
Paffard
Agger
Hill Farm
'Agger' was borrowed from Latin C14 for a mound, embankment or earthwork and
seems the most likely origin of this name, though there is a recorded old
English personal name Acca.
Finney
Green
Perhaps from old English fyniht/fynig, fennymarshy, but the surname Finney from
Ulster, Feeny meaning a soldier or a corruption of Fiennes is found locally; an
Anne Finney lived in Stafford Street, Newcastle, in 1836; so the place name may
derive from a family who lived there.
Highway
Lane/Farm
At one time known as 'Workhouse Lane' it was the original highway from Keele to
Madeley before the turnpiking of the road via Madeley Heath, and is still the
shortest route by foot.
Leycett
The earliest form appears to be Levershede, 1474, but a year later the spelling
is Lysot and all subsequent spellings suggest old English laes-(ge)set, meadow
building, as in Lissett on Humberside. If, however, the earliest spelling is
correct and subsequent ones are all aberrations, the meaning might be 'headland
of a man called Leofwince' or 'stream head where irises or rushes grow' (old
English laefer). As a surname, Leycett is found in C19 directory of Newcastle.
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