Calverley Family History

English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): habitational name from Calverley in Yorkshire named with Old English calfra (genitive plural of calf ‘calf’) + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. Alternatively in some instances the name may be a variant of the habitational name Calveley from a place so called in Cheshire (with the same meaning as above)

or from Calverleigh in Devon meaning ‘the clearing of the bare wood’ (Old English calu ‘bare bald’ + wudu ‘wood’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’).