Eccleshall

English

Alternative forms

• (surname): Eckersall

Etymology

From Old English *eccles (“church”) + heall (“hall, dwelling house”).

Proper noun

Eccleshall (countable and uncountable, plural Eccleshalls)

1. A town and civil parish in Stafford borough, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ8329).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Eccleshall is the 18261^st most common surname in England, belonging to 261 individuals.

See also

• Ecclesall

References

• Eccleshall parish map

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Eccleshall”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 510.
• Forebears