Westwell Family History
Westwell Name Meaning
from either of two places called Westwell (Kent Oxon) both of which are recorded as Westwell' in medieval documents. The place-names derive from Old English west ‘west western’ + wella ‘well spring stream’.sometimes possibly a late development of Westall or Westell (i) or readily confused with them.
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016