You're right about the streams (in fact there's also a Locko Brook), but I'd go with Cameron's derivation. Some early spellings end in -hagh(e), which supports a derivation of the second element from OE haga 'enclosure'.
Carole
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From: Paul Skellington <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 16:27:27 +0100
Subject: Re: [EPNL] Popple
> and one might argue
> that dialectal _low_ `pool' is for the Irish rep'd
> by _loch_ rather than
> for the Brit. Celtic rep'd by W _llwch_. I have no
> probs with influential
> holy Irish folk in Northumberland!
So, was there ever a Brit. ancestor of _llwch_? What
about Locko Park near Derby? Earliest forms seem to
be: Lochay / Lokhay in 1250, 58, 69, 98 etc; and
Lochaw[e] / Lokhaw[e] in 1276, 81, 91 etc. Cameron
says OE from 'locked enclosure' or some such thing.
But there are lots of streams and at least a couple of
lakes there now and OE PNs to do with flooding water
etc. I don't suppose it could be from a plural of
Brit. _luch_ 'pool, lake'; i.e. something like
_luchow_ if the whole area was a waterlogged plain
kind of thing could it....? Any precedents with the
utilisation of this element?
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