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The name means "land once cultivated and left fallow(Ley) in the near ash trees" Ashley Dale and
Jugbank. Mainly sandstone cottages now mixed in with modern housing. From medieval times men have indiscriminately hacked clearings in the forests, then linked them with tracks and lanes following no
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