(Saxon, boccen-ham, beech - tree village.) Fuller, in his Worthies, speaks of the beech-trees as the most characteristic feature of this county.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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