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Broadley


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Origin Of The Surname Broadley

Meaning Of The Surname Broadley

From the Town by the Dense Forest

Interesting Facts About Broadley

Broadley 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 derived from the Old English ‘brad’ meaning wide and ‘leah’ which means woods. Town with this name would have originally been next to dense forest.

Broadley Statistics

Broadley is the number 1087 ranked surname in the United Kingdom. According to our statistics around 9,403 share the surname Broadley in the UK.

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