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Originally Posted by Retlaw
This is a more likely explanation, considering the age of the place, & its first mention in the Church Kirk registers. In those days Vicars were not usualy local to the area, & wrote what they thought they'd heard, and Alley tu Royds is feasable considering local dialects. Especially as there were very few paved roads in those days, mostly cart tracks.
Retlaw.
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I get what you are saying Walter but surely a place name important enough to be on an 1840s map would have been around longer than a clergyman's mishearing in 1783.