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Does anyone know how the Hoyle Bank/ Hoyle Lake area came to be named?
Currently researching our Hoyle family history, and I've often wondered about the use of the name locally.
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God help us, Come yourself, Don't send Jesus, This is no place for children.
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Bert you forgot to add a pinch of salt and forget about the beautiful scroll they advertise unless your printing your own money.
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Bert you forgot to add a pinch of salt and forget about the beautiful scroll they advertise unless your printing your own money. Salt is bad for you, don't forget a lake is a hole before it fills up with water. 
God help us, Come yourself, Don't send Jesus, This is no place for children.
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Who could have had a better surname in that case, than the astronomer,Fred Hoyle?
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Thanks Bert - I'm aware of the origins of the surname, as I believe my Yorkshire family are descended from the Breton, de Hoyle. It would appear then that the local name was derived from a geographical feature rather than any connection with the surname. 
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Some info here: http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/place_page.jsp?p_id=1157http://hoylakeandwestkirby.com/#/history/4537948692The present name of Hoylake is derived from the "High Lake" or "Heye-pol", which once extended several miles along the coast from Hilbre to Dove Point at Meols. At low tide it had a depth of up to 20 feet of water and was protected by a wide sandbank,known as Hoyle Bank, providing a safe anchorage for ships that were too large to sail up the Dee to Chester.
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Cheers, Gibbo. 
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