The story
Habitational surname from a lost place in Yorkshire, from the Old Norse personal name Ufi + þveit (“clearing, glade”). Compare Dowthwaite.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Habitational surname from a lost place in Yorkshire, from the Old Norse personal name Ufi + þveit (“clearing, glade”). Compare Dowthwaite.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.