Beardwell is a farm and small hamlet in the parish of Atworth, Wiltshire, England.
The name appears in the mid-fifteenth century Tropenell Cartulary as Bedewelle, then as Bidwell in 1631, and as Beard Well in a Tithe Award of c. 1840.J. E. B. Gover, Allen Mawer, F. M. Stenton, The Place-names of Wiltshire, Vol. 16 (University Press, 1939), pp. 5, 116 By comparison with Bidwell in Northamptonshire, the name may be connected with the location of the settlements, as both stand near a Roman road.Nomina, Vol. 17 (1994), p. 14: "Beardwell (Wilts.), east of Bath, is 500 yards from a Roman road."
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