![]() Another explanation is a corruption of the Old English hay and ley a clearing or meadow. The legend is almost certainly medieval rather than ancient, although the town's coat of arms carries an image of the saint. Another held that the head of John the Baptist was buried here after his execution. ![]() One concerned a maiden killed by a lustful priest whose advances she spurned. The incorrect interpretation gave rise to two legends. This explanation is preferred to derivations from the Old English halig (holy), in hālig feax or "holy hair", proposed by 16th-century antiquarians. ![]() The town's name was recorded in about 1091 as Halyfax, from the Old English halh-gefeaxe, meaning "area of coarse grass in the nook of land".
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