Heck vs Read

Heck

name
  • A civil parish of Selby district, North Yorkshire, England, with the villages of Great Heck and Little Heck. 

  • A surname, possibly from German. 

  • A hamlet in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NY0980). 

  • A hardy breed of domestic cattle, the result of an attempt to breed back the extinct aurochs from modern aurochs-derived cattle in the 1920s and 1930s. 

Read

name
  • A village and civil parish in Ribble Valley district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD7634). 

  • A township in Butler County, Nebraska, United States. 

  • An unincorporated community in Randolph County, West Virginia, United States. 

  • A surname from Old English, a less common spelling variant of Reid. 

  • A township in Clayton County, Iowa, United States. 

  • A male given name transferred from the surname. 

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