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Beeching

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Beeching is an English surname. Either a derivative of the old English bece, bæce "stream", hence "dweller by the stream" or of the old English bece "beech-tree" hence "dweller by the beech tree".[1]

People called Beeching include:-

See also

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  • Beeching Axe, informal name for the report "The Reshaping of British Railways"

References

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  1. ^ Oxford Dictionary of English Surnames, Reaney & Wilson, Oxford University Press 2005