What is "beeching"

Beeching is an English surname. Either a derivative of the old English bece, bæce "stream", hence "dweller by the stream" or of the old English bece "beach-tree" hence "dweller by the beach tree".

People called Beeching include:-

• Henry Charles Beeching (1859–1919) clergyman, author and poet
• Jack Beeching (John Charles Stuart Beeching) (1922–2001), British poet
• Richard Beeching (1913–1985), chairman of British Railways
• Vicky Beeching (Victoria Louise Beeching) (born 1979), British-born Christian singer