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Hedley
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Origin Of The Surname Hedley
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Meaning Of The Surname Hedley
From the Town by the Clearing of Heather
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Interesting
Facts About
Hedley
Hedley is a locational surname coming from any of the places so-called or similarly spelled across Britain. Locational surnames were traditionally given to someone who had moved away to a new area, whereby they were assigned the name of their original home as a surname to differentiate them from the other townspeople. The place name itself is made up of the Old English element ‘haeth’ and ‘leah’ translating as ‘heather’ and ‘clearing’. Places with this name would have had their original settlements near a clearing of heather. |
Hedley Statistics
Hedley is the number 1471 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 6,614 share the surname Hedley in the UK.
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