English: habitational name from either of two places in Norfolk and
Suffolk. The first element of the former is Old English w(e)all
‘wall’, while the first element of the latter is wealh
‘foreigner’, ‘Briton’ (see Wallace); they share the second
element Old English pol ‘pool’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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