Shardlow

English

Alternative forms

• (surname): Sharlow

Etymology

From Old English sċeard (“notch, indentation”) + hlǣw (“mound”).

Proper noun

Shardlow (countable and uncountable, plural Shardlows)

1. A village in South Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK437302).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Shardlow is the 7725^th most common surname in England, belonging to 837 individuals.

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• world ash, world-ash