Definition of "Eastham"

Eastham

proper noun
countable and uncountable, plural Easthams
1. A placename
  1. A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ358805).
    Quotations
    At Ellesmere Port the railway ends, but the canal continues a little farther to Eastham, giving shipping an outlet to the River Mersey.
    1959 October, Norman Jones, “The Manchester Ship Canal Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page 488
  2. A village and civil parish in the Malvern Hills district, Worcestershire, England.
  3. A town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States.
2. (countable) A habitational surname from Old English.