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Chester (placename element)

Place-name element common to England

Summary

Place-name element common to England

The English place-name Chester, and the suffixes -chester, -caster and -cester (old -ceaster), are commonly indications that the place is the site of a Roman castrum, meaning a military camp or fort (cf. Welsh caer), but it can also apply to the site of a pre-historic fort. Names ending in -cester are nearly always reduced to -ster when spoken, the exception being "Cirencester", which (commonly nowadays) is pronounced in full. However, names ending in -ster are not necessarily related, as the Irish province of Leinster, which comes from the tribe Laigin + Irish tír or Old Norse staðr, both meaning "land" or "territory". The pronunciation of names ending in -chester or -caster is regular.

A

  • Acaster Malbis
  • Acaster Selby
  • Alcester
  • Alchester
  • Ancaster

B

  • Bewcastle, formerly Buthcaster (1263).
  • Bicester
  • Binchester
  • Brancaster

C

  • Caister-on-Sea
  • Caistor
  • Caistor St Edmund
  • Casterton, Cumbria
  • Casterton, Great, Rutland
  • Casterton, Little, Rutland
  • Castor, Cambridgeshire
  • Chester
    • Cheshire, Chester-shire
  • Chester, Little, Derby
  • Chesterfield
  • Chesterford, Great
  • Chesterford, Little
  • Chester-le-Street
  • Chesterton (disambiguation)
  • Chesterwood
  • Chichester
  • Cirencester
  • Colchester
  • Craster

D

  • Doncaster
  • Dorchester
    • Dorset, Dor-chester-seat
  • Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire

E

  • Ebchester
  • Exeter

F

  • Frocester

G

  • Gloucester
  • Gloster Hill (near Amble, Northumberland)
  • Godmanchester
  • Grantchester
  • Great Casterton

H

  • Hincaster
  • Horncastle, known in Old English as Hyrnecastre

I

  • Ilchester
  • Irchester

K

  • Kenchester

L

  • Lancaster
    • Lancashire, (Lan-CA-sheer)
  • Lanchester
  • Leicester (Less-stir)

M

  • Mancetter
  • Manchester
  • Monkchester, modernised form of Munucceaster, the Old English name for Newcastle upon Tyne.
  • Muncaster

P

  • Portchester

R

  • Ribchester
  • Rocester
  • Rochester, Kent
  • Rochester, Northumberland

S

  • Silchester

T

  • Tadcaster
  • Towcester

U

  • Uttoxeter

W

  • Winchester
  • Woodchester
  • Worcester
  • Wroxeter

Notes

References

  1. Ekwall, E.. (1960). "The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names". [[Oxford University Press.
  2. Wells, John C.. (2000). "Longman Pronunciation Dictionary". 2nd ed. [[Longman]].
  3. (1915). "Place names of Cumberland and Westmorland". Manchester University Press.
  4. "Key to English Place-names - Craster, Northumberland".
  5. "A Key to English Place-Names - Gloster Hill, Northumberland".
  6. "Key to English Place-names - Horncaslte, Lincolnshire".
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