English: habitational name from any of various places so
called. Most, including those in Cumbria, Herefordshire, Norfolk, and
East and North Yorkshire, are named from an Old English wilig
‘willow’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. One in Somerset
and another in Wiltshire have as their first element Old English
wiell(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’. The one that has given its name to
the county of Wiltshire is named for the Wylye river, on which
it stands (an ancient British river name, perhaps meaning
‘capricious’).
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