Brickdale Family History
Brickdale Surname Meaning
From a place called Birkdale (Old Scandinavian birki ‘birch birch wood’ + dalr ‘valley’) probably that in North Meols (Lancs) a manor.
Less likely from that in Grinton (NR Yorks) with metathesis of the first vowel and the following [r].
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
