English: habitational name, possibly from Lipwood Hall or Farm in
Northumberland, named from Old English hlep ‘steep slope’ +
wudu ‘wood’, or from a lost or unidentified place. The surname
does not occur in current English records, although a bearer of the
name Lepford is recorded in the census of 1881.
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