Beverley.
A place name:
Meaning & usage
A place name: A market town and civil parish with a town council and county town of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
A place name: A community in the Rural Municipality of Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada.
A place name: A suburb of Adelaide in the City of Charles Sturt, South Australia.
A place name: A town and local government area (the Shire of Beverley) in the Wheatbelt region, Western Australia.
A habitational surname from Old English.
A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
Where this word comes from
From Old English befer (“beaver”) + lēah (“clearing”). Equivalent to Beaver + -ley (“lea”).
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