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Surname Etymology and Meaning of ASTLEY

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(origin: Sax. Local) A corruption of Estley or Eastley, the east meadow or field. (See ley, under Ashley.)

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

English: habitational name from a place in Warwickshire named Astley, from Old English east ‘east’ + leah ‘woodland clearing’. There are several other places in western and northwestern England so named, but the modern surname seems to be particularly associated with the one in Warwickshire. See also Astle.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)