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Oversleyford
There are places called Oversley elsewhere in England.
Oversley and Oversleyford (sometimes Oversley Ford) is a name used for some places in an area near Manchester Airport.
- Oversleyford Bridge, where the A538 road from Altrincham to Wilmslow crosses the River Bollin
- Oversley Lodge Farm (as at August 2011 occupied by an asbestos cleanup firm for training)
- Oversley Farm, and Oversleyford Brickworks, now obliterated by Runway 2 of Manchester Airport
The name is first recorded in the 13th century as Vulverichelei and seems to come from Anglo-Saxon Wulfrīces lēah (Wulfrīc's clearing or meadow). The ford was probably a few yards north of the modern main road Oversleyford Bridge, where a minor road bridges the Bollin; that minor road is now a back entry to a hotel's front yard but was part of the A538 road before it was diverted for a runway extension. The name Oversleyford is at the middle of the south edge of this old Ordnance Survey map.