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Berwick-upon-Tweed en · PROPN

Pronunciation

Etymology

From Old English bere (“barley”) + wīc (“settlement”) + name of river.

Meanings

  1. A town and civil parish with a town council in Northumberland, and the northernmost town in England (OS grid ref NT9953).
  2. A former local government district in Northumberland, England, abolished on 1 April 2009 and merged into the Northumberland unitary authority.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
Berwick-on-Tweed alternative, dated lexicographic

Descendants

Berwig ar Dwid

Relateds

North Berwick

Translations (3)

ja ベリック・アポン・ツイード (town) · mr बेरिक-अपॉन-ट्वीड (town) · cy Caerferwig (town)