Alveston
English
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Etymology
[edit]From the Old English personal name Ælfwīġ + stān (“stone”).[1]
Proper noun
[edit]Alveston (countable and uncountable, plural Alvestons)
- A village and civil parish in South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST6388).
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Statistics
[edit]- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Alveston is the 91802nd most common surname in England, belonging to 22 individuals.
References
[edit]- ^ "Key to English Place Names". Key to English Place Names- Worth Kent. University of Nottingham.
Further reading
[edit]- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Alveston”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 31.
- Forebears
Categories:
- English terms derived from Old English
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Villages in Gloucestershire, England
- en:Villages in England
- en:Civil parishes of England
- en:Places in Gloucestershire, England
- en:Places in England
- English surnames
- English surnames from Old English