Etymology

Tadley

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Today it means: A town and civil parish with a town council in Basingstoke and Deane borough, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU6061). Full definition →

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The story

From an unattested Old English personal name *Tāda + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).

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