Tyldesley

• (surname): Tildersley, Tildesley

From the Old English personal name Tilwald + -s- + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”) .

Tyldesley (countable and uncountable, plural Tyldesleys)

1. A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD7001).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Tyldesley is the 10260^th most common surname in England, belonging to 577 individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Tyldesley”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
• Forebears