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Beeston

Beeston proper noun: a hamlet in Sandy parish, Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire (OS grid ref SP1648).

Proper noun

Beeston (countable and uncountable, plural Beestons)

  1. A hamlet in Sandy parish, Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire (OS grid ref SP1648).
  2. A village and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester borough, Cheshire; the location of Beeston Castle (OS grid ref SJ5458).
  3. A village in Beeston with Bittering parish, Breckland district, Norfolk (OS grid ref TF9115).
  4. A town in Broxtowe borough, Nottinghamshire (OS grid ref SK5236).
  5. A suburb of Leeds, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE2830).
  6. A habitational surname from Old English.

Forms of Beeston

pluralBeestons

Origin of Beeston

From Middle English Bestone, from Old English *Bēostūn, from *bēos (“bentgrass”) (from Proto-West Germanic *beusu (“rush”)) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Words formed from Beeston

Questions about Beeston

What does Beeston mean?
Beeston means a hamlet in Sandy parish, Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire (OS grid ref SP1648).
What part of speech is Beeston?
Beeston is a proper noun.

Words near Beeston in the dictionary

  1. beesona
  2. beesonas
  3. beest
  4. beesting
  5. beestings
  6. Beeston
  7. Beeston with Bittering
  8. Beestone
  9. Beestonian
  10. Beestons
  11. beests

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