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Eardisley Parish, Herefordshire
The Landscape of the Parish The southern part of the parish is generally flattish flood plain, variable alluvial soils over clay. There are some ridges and rises; the Castle site and Church occupy a low east-west ridge which runs south of the village. I assume this ridge is glacial. To the north-west of the village the ground rises in a series of very broad undulations to the high point to the north of Bollingham. Streams rise from a series of springs to flow south-east across this ground and have in places cut some quite steep gullies. The local name for these is a 'dingle'. This uneven ground and the dingles would have presented some difficulties to moving east-west across the upland area. Medieval sources suggest that the lowland area would have been too heavily wooded to allow easy movement. I therefore suspect that the oldest highway in the area is the ridgeway to the north of the parish, now Apostles Lane, but I have no proof. I think that understanding the track system for this whole area has the potential to explain many mysteries. (Source: Mal Mason, email January 2006) The Toponymy of the Parish The village name. Two ways to pronounce it: many put the accent in the second syllable: er-dis-lea. However the favoured pronunciation amongst local people is to run the first two syllables together and put the accent in the last syllable: erdis-leigh. Could this be a throwback to the Saxon name? (Source: Mal Mason, email January 2006)
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