Westfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Westfields
Etymology: From Old English west (“west”) + feld (“field”), equivalent to west + field. Doublet of Westerveld.
The former village in New Brunswick may be named after Westfield, Massachusetts. The civil parish is named after the village.
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The former name of a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, now named Camillo.
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A civil parish of Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada.
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A former village, now part of the Grand Bay-Westfield suburb of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
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A community in Region of Queens Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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A village and civil parish in Rother district, East Sussex, England.
examples: text: With regard to the station at Notgrove, it was finally decided that this should be situated beside the old Bourton-Cheltenham Road near the hamlet of Westfield.
ref: 1955 August, J. Spencer Gilks, “The Banbury & Cheltenham Direct Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 524:
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A hamlet in Hawling parish, Tewkesbury district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SP0821).
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A former civil parish of Norfolk, England, now part of Whinburgh and Westfield.
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An area in the town of Redcar, North Yorkshire, England.
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An area within Acomb, a suburb of York, North Yorkshire, England.
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A suburban village and civil parish in Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST6754).
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An outer suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK4381).
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An area of Woking borough, Surrey, England.
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An area in the town of Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire council area, Scotland.
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A village in Caithness, Highland council area, Scotland.
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A small village in Torphichen parish, West Lothian council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS9372).
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A suburb of Otahuhu, Auckland, New Zealand.
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A ghost town in Jefferson County, Alabama.
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A township and village therein, in Clark County, Illinois.
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A city in Hamilton County, Indiana.
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An unincorporated community in Warren Township, St. Joseph County, Indiana.
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A tiny city in Plymouth County, Iowa.
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A small town in Aroostook County, Maine.
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A city in Hampden County, Massachusetts.
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A large town in Union County, New Jersey.
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A town and village in Chautauqua County, New York.
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A former town in Richmond County, New York, now part of the borough of Staten Island.
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An unincorporated community in Surry County and Stokes County, North Carolina.
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A borough of Tioga County, Pennsylvania.
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An unincorporated community in Harris County, Texas.
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A small town in Orleans County, Vermont.
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An unincorporated community in Lewis County, West Virginia.
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A small town and village in Marquette County, Wisconsin.
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A small town in Sauk County, Wisconsin.
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A number of other townships in the United States, listed under Westfield Township.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.