Ridgeway Family History

English: from Middle English rig(g)ewei ‘ridgeway’ (Old English hrycgweg). The surname may be topographic signifying someone who lived beside a ridgeway or habitational signifying someone who lived at one of a number of places so named.

For example, Ridgeway is found in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Dorset, Somerset, and Staffordshire.

Additionally, Rudgeway is located in Gloucestershire.

This surname indicates a connection to the geographical features of the landscape.

Such names often reflect the history and settlement patterns of the regions where they originated.