Berwick

Meanings

1. Any of various places, including:
2. Ellipsis of Berwick-upon-Tweed: a town in Northumberland, England.
3. A number of places in the United States:
4. An unincorporated community in Warren County, Illinois.
5. An unincorporated community in Polk County, Iowa.
6. An unincorporated community in Nemaha County, Kansas.
7. A town in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana.
8. A town and census-designated place in York County, Maine.
9. An unincorporated community in Newton County, Missouri.
10. An unincorporated community in Seneca County, Ohio.
11. A residential neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio.
12. A populated place in McHenry County, North Dakota.

1. Alternative form of berewick

Etymology

For places in England and Scotland (e.g. North Berwick), from Old English bere (“barley”) + Old English wīc (“settlement”). For the Scottish name, there is the possibility that the second element instead derives from a different word, for which see -wick. Places outside England and Scotland are generally named, possibly indirectly, after places in England, including Berwick-upon-Tweed. The town in Nova Scotia is named after the town in Maine. The name was chosen by a local resident who had travelled through the community in Maine and was impressed by its neatness.