English: habitational name from either of two places in West
Yorkshire called Lindley, or from Linley in Shropshire and Wiltshire,
all named from Old English lin ‘flax’ + leah
‘wood’, ‘glade’, with epenthetic -d-, or from another Lindley
in West Yorkshire (near Otley), named in Old English as ‘lime wood’,
from lind ‘lime tree’ + leah ‘woodland clearing’.
Lindley in Leicestershire probably also has this origin, and is a
further possible source of the surname.German:
habitational name from places in Bavaria and Hannover called Lindloh,
meaning ‘lime grove’, or a topographic name with the same meaning (see
Linde + Loh).
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