Cowley or Coverley

I can answer pretty confidently the query II. in Number 4., p. 59., about the etymon of *Cowley*, for I have, on a farm of my own, two denominations of land, called *Ox-ley* and *Cow-ley*, and I believe that both these names are common all through England. Like *Horseley, Ashley, Oakley* and a thousand other *leas* or *leys* distinguished from each other by some local characteristic. *Coverley* was probably not *Cowley*, but, like *Woodley*, *Orchardleigh*, &c., derived from its local position.