In the new Cambridge dictionary of English place-names, I read under the Ruyton-XI-towns
entry that the name is derived from "Tye farm".
What's going on here? Doesn't OE ryge mean rye? And isn't tye or tey only used in
East Anglia?
Dr. Keith M. Briggs
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