Etymology

Radley

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Today it means: A village and civil parish on the Thames in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England, originally in Berkshire (OS grid ref SU5299). Full definition →

Old English rēad
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited fromrēad“red”
  2. English todayRadley

From Old English rēad (“red”) + lēah (“wood, woodland clearing”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishrēad all →

RadfordRedpathRedshawRadwell

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.