Woodley

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Woodley

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From Old English wudu (“wood”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to wood + -ley (“lea”).

proper noun Woodleys · Woodlee

countable, uncountable A town and civil parish with a town council in Wokingham borough, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU7673).
countable, uncountable A suburban area of the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SJ938922).
countable, uncountable An eastern suburb of Romsey, Test Valley district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU3722).
countable, uncountable A ghost town in the Rural Municipality of Benson, Saskatchewan, Canada.
countable, uncountable A suburb of Nairobi, Kenya.
countable, uncountable A habitational surname from Old English.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: wokingham, woolhampton, wargrave, wokingham without, west woodhay, weybridge, ravenswood, woking, wormley, earley, wanborough, witley, wickham, worplesdon, twyford, warfield

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@misc{woodley_2026,
  title = {Woodley},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/woodley},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}