The woodbury Surname
woodbury Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from any of various places, notably in
Devon, called Woodbury, from Old English wudu ‘wood’ +
byrig, dative of burh ‘fortified place’, or from either
of two places called Woodborough, in Nottinghamshire and
Wiltshire. The Nottinghamshire place name is from Old English
wudu + burh, while Woodborough in Wiltshire is named
with the same first element + Old English beorg ‘hill’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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