The harwell Surname
harwell Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from places called Harwell in south
Oxfordshire (formerly part of Berkshire) and Nottinghamshire. The
former was named in Old English as ‘spring or stream by or from the
gray one’, from Hara ‘the gray’ (here referring to a certain
hill) + wella; while the latter was named from Old English
heore, h¯re ‘pleasant’ + wella ‘stream’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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