English Explanatory Dictionary

Hammersley

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from Old English.

Word forms

Hammersley Hammersleys Hamersley

Etymology

Habitational surname from a lost place believed to have been in Staffordshire, perhaps from an Old English personal name *Hamela + -s- + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).

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