Last Name GRIMSDITCH

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Meaning	Local: Of Grim's dike, i.e. the dike of Grim, a Cheshire surname. There is Grimesdike, a hamlet in the parish of Barwick-in-Elmet near Leeds, county York, but a Grimsditch in the Hundred of Bucklow, county Cheshire, seems to have given rise to this last name. Grim and Grimes are first names.

Origin	English, Irish

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