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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA surname from Old English. · A small suburb south of Halifax, Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0922).
Habitational surname from a place in West Yorkshire, from Cumbric *eglēs (“church”) (also found in Eccles) + Old English lēah (“woodland clearing”).
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