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What is the origin of the name Wellesley?
English: habitational name from Wellesley Farm near Wells (Somerset). The placename probably derives from the genitive case of Old English wella ‘spring stream’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. It was later interpreted as ‘woodland belonging [...]