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.
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