English Explanatory Dictionary

Towneley

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from Old English.

Word forms

Towneley Towneleys Townley

Etymology

Habitational surname from a minor place near Burnley, in Lancashire, from Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to town + -ley (“lea”).

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