English Explanatory Dictionary

Woolley

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A place in England:
  2. A hamlet in Barham and Woolley parish, Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL1574).
  3. A hamlet in Morwenstow parish, north Cornwall (OS grid ref SS2516).
  4. A small village in Charlcombe parish, Bath and North East Somerset district, Somerset (OS grid ref ST7468).
  5. A village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE3213).
  6. A suburb of Bradford-on-Avon, west Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST8361).
  7. A habitational surname from Old English.

Word forms

Woolley Woolleys

Etymology

Usually from Old English wulf (“wolf”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade frequented by wolves”). Equivalent to wolf + -ley (“lea”).

Derived words

Barham and Woolley Woolley Grange Woolley Moor
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