English Explanatory Dictionary

Whyteleafe

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A village and civil parish in Tandridge district, Surrey, England, just outside Greater London (OS grid ref TQ3358).

Word forms

Whyteleafe

Etymology

A variant of white + leaf, apparently from the white underside of whitebeam leaves; another source says it was named from White Leaf Field in 1839 (A. D. Mills, A Dictionary of British Place Names).

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