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Surname Etymology and Meaning of BAKEWELL

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English: habitational name from Bakewell in Derbyshire, named with the Old English personal name Badeca, Baduca (from a short form of the various compound personal names with the first element beadu ‘battle’) + well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)