Beckwith is a small settlement in

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, England. It lies south west of

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The place name was first recorded in about 972 as ''bec wudu'',

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for "beech wood". The place was historically a hamlet in the ancient parish of

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in the

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.Genuki website
/ref> It was the ancient seat of the Beckwith family, which owned property here until 1753. It gave its name to the now larger village of

Beckwithshaw Beckwithshaw is a village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England about south-west of Harrogate. History Beckwithshaw takes its name from the now smaller settlement of Beckwith, to the east. The suffix "shaw" ...

, 1 mile west. In 1974 Beckwith became part of Harrogate district in the new county of North Yorkshire. In 2010 the parish of Pannal was renamed Beckwithshaw.

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