| Notes |
From OE ac, leah 'oak wood', or 'glade where oaks grow'. Croxall was transferred from Derbyshire to Staffordshire in 1894, but Oakley ('...an old manor, situated about a mile North-west from the church beyond Elford park, and seems to derive its name from the fine oak-trees still growing in this vicinity...': Shaw 1798: I 387) has always been in Staffordshire. |