I grew up in Witney in Oxfordshire, where older folk would speak of 'chewries' instead of alley-ways. I never saw the word written down and suspect it has fallen out of use there. I theorised that it might come from an uneducated English rendering of tuyere, a 'nozzle'.

So I was both startled and delighted to discover a tuery in Alcester. A local thought that the local history society had suggested a connection with abbatoirs, but I thought not. So I was very interested to search on tuery and find this thread.

Ben