# Beswick

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #78,404

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

## Etymology
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”).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/beswick