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Bletchley Family History

Bletchley Surname Meaning

From Bletchley (Shrops, Bucks) or Bletchingley in Staplehurst (Kent) recorded as Blecchelegh' in 133.

The place-names may be from an Old English male given name *Bleccea + lēah ‘clearing wood’.

Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016


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