Waverley
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old English wǣfre (“restless, wavering”) + lēah (“meadow”), thus "the woodland clearing with swaying trees".
Proper noun
[edit]Waverley
- A very rare Scottish surname of unknown origin.
- The main railway station in Edinburgh, Scotland.
- Any of several placenames in several countries:
- An eastern suburb and local government area of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
- A rural locality in the Shire of Boulia, Queensland, Australia.
- A suburb of the city of Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
- A ghost town in the Goldfields-Esperance region, Western Australia.
- A suburb of Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. [1]
- A town in south Taranaki, New Zealand. [2]
- A local government district with borough status in southern Surrey, England.
- A community and civil parish with a community council in Rotherham borough, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK4187). [3]
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- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Places in Edinburgh
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- en:Places in Scotland
- en:Suburbs in New South Wales
- en:Local government areas of Australia
- en:Places in Sydney
- en:Places in New South Wales
- en:Places in Australia
- en:Villages in Queensland
- en:Villages in Australia
- en:Places in Queensland
- en:Suburbs in Tasmania
- en:Places in Tasmania
- en:Ghost towns in Western Australia
- en:Places in Western Australia
- en:Suburbs in New Zealand
- en:Places in New Zealand
- en:Towns in New Zealand
- en:Districts of Surrey, England
- en:Districts of England
- en:Places in Surrey, England
- en:Places in England
- en:Villages in South Yorkshire, England
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- en:Civil parishes of England
- en:Places in South Yorkshire, England
- en:Boroughs in England