English Explanatory Dictionary

Ransley

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from Old English.

Word forms

Ransley Ransleys

Etymology

Habitational surname from a lost manor in Penshurst, Kent, which is recorded as Reneslegh in 1292, Ranshlegh in 1435 and Raneleights Heath in 1800. This placename derives from an uncertain first element + Old English lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).

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