English: habitational name from any of various places called
Eastwood. Most, such as the one in Essex, get the name from Old
English east ‘east’ + wudu ‘wood’, but an example in
Nottinghamshire originally had as its final element Old Norse
þveit ‘meadow’ (see Thwaites).
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