a district--in English topography generally applied to an open field or meadow; _e.g._ Leigh (the meadow), in Lancashire; Berkeley, Thornley, Oakley, Auchley, Alderley, Brachley (the meadow of birch, thorn, oak, alder, ferns); Hasley (of hazels); Hagley (the enclosed meadow); Horsley (the meadow of Horsa, or of horses); Brockley (of the badger); Hindley (of the stag); Everley (of the wild boar, _aper_); Bradley (broad meadow); Stanley (stony meadow); Loxley (of Loki, a Scandinavian deity); Ashley (ash-tree meadow); but Ashley, S. Carolina, was named after Lord Ashley in the reign of Charles II.; Morley (moor-field); Bisley (bean-field); Cowley (cow’s field); Linley (flax-field); Monkley (the monk’s field); Audley, Co. Stafford (old field); but Audley, in Essex, took its name from a palace erected by Thomas Audley, Lord Chancellor of England; Ofley (the field of King Offa); Tarporley, in Cheshire, corrupt. from _Thorpeley_ (the farm-field or meadow); Chorley (the meadow of the R. Chor); Bosley (Bodolph’s field); West Leigh, North Leigh, Leighton, from the same root; Satterleigh (the field of Seator, an A.S. deity); Earnley, Sussex (eagle meadow); Ripley, in Yorkshire, from _Hryp_, a personal name; Bentley, _bent_, pasture (a coarse kind of grass); Tewesley and Tisley, from Tiw, a Saxon deity--as also Tewing, Tuoesmere, and Teowes (thorn); Henley (the old meadow or field), supposed to be the oldest town in Oxfordshire. [Sidenote: LIN (Esthonian),] a fort or town; _e.g._ Rialin, now Riga (the fortress of the Rugii), in Russia; Pernau, anc. _Perna-lin_ (the lime-tree fort); Tepelin (hill town; _tepe_, Turc. hill). [Sidenote: LINDE (Ger.), LIND, LYND (A.S. and Scand.),] the linden-tree; _e.g._ Lindhurst and Lyndhurst (the linden-tree wood); Lindheim, Lindorf, Limburg, in Germany (the town of linden-trees); as also Limburg, in Holland, formerly _Lindenburg_; Lindau (the linden-tree meadow); Lindesnaes (the promontory of linden-trees), in Norway; La Linde, Le Lindois (abounding in linden-trees); Limbœuf, Lindebœuf (linden-tree dwelling), in France. [Sidenote: LINNE (Gadhelic), LLYNN (Cym.-Cel.), HLYNNA (A.S.),]