Waverley

Meanings

1. A very rare Scottish surname of unknown origin.
2. The main railway station in Edinburgh, Scotland (OS grid ref NT258738).
3. Any of several placenames in several countries:
4. An eastern suburb and local government area of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
5. A rural locality in the Shire of Boulia, Queensland, Australia.
6. A suburb of the city of Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
7. A ghost town in the Goldfields-Esperance region, Western Australia.
8. A suburb of Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.
9. A town in south Taranaki, New Zealand.
10. A local government district with borough status in southern Surrey, England, to be merged into West Surrey unitary authority in April 2027; see West Surrey.
11. A community and civil parish with a community council in Rotherham borough, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK4187).

Etymology

From Old English wǣfre (“restless, wavering”) + lēah (“meadow”), thus "the woodland clearing with swaying trees".