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Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Bickerdike Terrace

Other OS name in the Parish of Kippax

Etymology

, from the local family of Bickerdike common from the seventeenth century ( PRKp passim ) ; the name is doubtless of local origin , ' ditch in dispute ' , v. biker , dīc .