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It is an Old English place-name that has become a surname and changed form over time.
The place name was probably something like "woodland pasture belonging to the people of Bieda" - in Old English biedingden. This consists of the personal name Bieda, the -ing means "people of" and -den is an area of woodland cleared for farming.
There is a village in Kent (south-east England) called Biddenden which has the same origin; in earlier times its name was Bidingden. Brekynden is a late medieval form of this place-name, which would be used to identify people from the area:
John of Brekynden
Wat of Brekynden
and son on.
Eventually this became a surname and evolved into Brickenden.
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