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Acaster Alcester Alchester Ancaster Bicester Binchester Brancaster Chichester Cirencester Colchester Doncaster Dorchester Dorchester Ebchester Exeter Frocester...
- 'Robrivis. Later, the word
cæster (=castle, from
Latin castrum) was
added to the name, and the city was
called Robrivis Cæster. Bede
mentions the city in...
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suffix -cester or -chester,
which is
derived from Old
English ceaster /
cæster (ultimately from
Latin castra meaning 'military camp'). Some settlements...
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Papcastle is said to be a
compound formed from Old
Norse and Old
English papi+
cæster,
meaning 'the
Roman fort
inhabited by a hermit'. It has been
known for some...
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where "Lon"
refers to the
River Lune and "castre" from the Old
English cæster and
Latin castrum for "fort" to the
Roman fort that
stood on the site. A...
- as Loncastre,
where "Lon"
refers to the
River Lune, with the Old
English cæster (borrowed from the
Latin castrum) for "fort". The
first fort at Lancaster...
-
census to 209. "Caster"
often suggests a
Roman origin (from the Old
English cæster and
Latin castrum for "fort"), but no
Roman remains are
known at Hincaster...
- years,
mainly in
urban centres.
There were no
known cities (L castrum, OE
caester, W caer, Br Ker ) west of
Exeter so
Cornwall may have
remained pagan at...
-
translates as "the
Roman fort
where there were
bothies or shielings". '
Cæster' is "an
Anglian side-form of OE 'ceaster',
referring to the
defences of...
- on the
River Lune',
combining the name of the
river with the Old
English cæster,
which derived from the
Roman word for a fort or camp.
Official do****ents...
