be an otherwise unattested Old English word *bica "point" or to be a personal name Bica; thus the name once meant "ridge with a point" or "Bica's ridge".

The parish also contains the place Mailscot, whose name appears to use Welsh elements (though with English word-order) and to have meant "the wood (modern Welsh coed) belonging to a person called Mail".

History

English Bicknor is one of the ancient villages of the Forest of Dean, situated at the top of a hill overlooking

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