Given name & surname · also Middle English
Beswick
“Beac's farm”
Beswick is a surname from Middle English, ultimately from Old Norse.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Beswick goes back to Old English *Bēaceswīc, meaning “Beac's farm.”
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Where it comes from
Beswick comes from Middle English, and ultimately from Old Norse.
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How it developed
From Middle English Bexwic, from Old English *Bēaceswīc (“Beac's farm”), from Old English wīc (“village”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Beswick’s family of names
In English usage, Beswick as a surname has a related form in BESTWICK.
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