If you have the time, I'd would appreciate your take on my name:

Geoffrey Leigh Withnell (there have been a bunch of us with that moniker in the family, although it traditionally in our family is not passed from father to son, e.g. I am named after an uncle.)

I am told Geoffrey is the same name as Godfrey and means "Peace of God"

Leigh is as has been noted earlier a term for a field or meadow.

According to family tradition, Withnell is derived from "Willow Hill" (withy knoll), and is Welsh. There are a lot of Davies and Jones in the geneology, so I tend to believe the Welsh bit.

Geoff Withnell