Walmersley

English

Alternative forms

• (surname): Walmesley, Walmisley, Walmsley

Etymology

From the Old English personal name Waldmǣr, which is composed of the elements weald (“power, authority”) and mǣre (“famous”), + -s- + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”) .

Proper noun

Walmersley (countable and uncountable, plural Walmersleys)

1. A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD8013).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Walmersley is the 31575^th most common surname in England, belonging to 38 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Walmersley”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
• Forebears