Exley

name

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Old English.

Etymology

Habitational surname from a place in West Yorkshire, from Cumbric *eglēs (“church”) (also found in Eccles) + Old English lēah (“woodland clearing”).

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