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Bickham Wood (Plant.)

Other OS name in the Parish of Wambrook

Etymology

, 1844TA , Byckeham Woode 1550, Becham Wood 1811 OS , origin uncertain , but perhaps from bica ' beak-like projection ' with cumb ' valley ' , cf. Bickham in Pamphill par . 2 168 and Bickham PN D 387 .