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Surname Etymology and Meaning of ACKLAND

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(origin: Saxon. Local) The name of a place in North Devonshire, England, whence the surname is derived; so called, because it was situated among groves of oaks--from ack, oak, as above, and land.

Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import (1857).