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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


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