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Beswick

Beswick proper noun: a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref TA012481).

Proper noun

Beswick (countable and uncountable, plural Beswicks)

  1. A village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref TA012481).
  2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Forms of Beswick

pluralBeswicks
alternative formBestwick

Origin of Beswick

Partly from Middle English Bexwic, from Old English *Bēaceswīc (literally “Beac's farm”); and partly the Old Norse personal name Bø̄si or Besi + Old English wīc (“village”).

Questions about Beswick

What does Beswick mean?
Beswick means a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref TA012481).
What part of speech is Beswick?
Beswick is a proper noun.

Words near Beswick in the dictionary

  1. beswearing
  2. beswears
  3. besweat
  4. besweatered
  5. besweeten
  6. Beswick
  7. Beswicks
  8. beswinge
  9. beswink
  10. beswinking
  11. beswore

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Beswick (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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