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camberley

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.08 in modern English

Syllables
cam-ber-ley
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A town in Surrey Heath borough, Surrey, England.

name

A suburb of Hastings, Hawke's Bay, North Island, New Zealand.

Etymology

In Surrey, originally named Cambridge Town in 1862 after the Duke of Cambridge. Camberley was coined in 1877 at the behest of the Post Office, presumably to avoid confusion with the Cambridgeshire city. The place in New Zealand would have been named after the Surrey town.

Questions

What does camberley mean?
A town in Surrey Heath borough, Surrey, England.
Where does camberley come from?
In Surrey, originally named Cambridge Town in 1862 after the Duke of Cambridge. Camberley was coined in 1877 at the behest of the Post Office, presumably to avoid confusion with the Cambridgeshire city. The place in New Zealand would have been named after the Surrey town.

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