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Winstanley
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Origin Of The Surname Winstanley
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Meaning Of The Surname Winstanley
From the Town by Winston’s Forest
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Interesting
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Winstanley
Winstanley 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 comes from the Old English ‘Wynstan’, the source of the name that we now spell Winston. This name is combined with ‘leah’ to mean ‘Winston’s Forest’. Winstanley would have originally have been built near to a forest owned by a man named Wynstan. |
Winstanley Statistics
Winstanley is the number 1384 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 7,714 share the surname Winstanley in the UK.
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