English Explanatory Dictionary

Beeching

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from Old English.
  2. The Beeching Axe; the closure of many branch lines in the UK in the mid-20th century.

Word forms

Beeching Beechings

Etymology

Topographic surname from either Old English bæc (“stream, brook”) or bēċe (“beech”).

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