- Chester-le-Street (/ˈtʃɛstəlistriːt/) is a
market town in
County Durham, England. It is
located around 6
miles (10 kilometres)
north of Durham. The town...
-
Doncaster (/ˈdɒŋkəstər, -kæs-/ DONK-ə-stər, DONK-ast-ər) is a city in
South Yorkshire, England.
Named after the
River Don, it is the
administrative centre...
- of the city's name)
Kaerleir ("City of Leir"). Leir, Lerion, and Ligora(
ceastre) all
derive from the old
Brittonic name of the
River Soar, *Ligera or *Ligora...
- A
mention of
Wintanceaster (here
spelled Ƿintan
ceastre) in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle...
- Old
English itself in an Anglo-Saxon
Chronicle entry for 924 as
Ligera ceastre (and, in
various spellings,
frequently thereafter). In the
Domesday Book...
- This was
supposedly devoted to the god J****. Leir, Lerion, and Ligora(
ceastre) all
derive from the old
Brittonic name of the
River Soar, *Ligera or *Ligora...
- had
become a
centre for the Anglo-Saxon army or here
known as
Weogorna ceastre (Worcester Camp). The
Weorgoran were
probably a sub-tribe of the larger...
- "castle,
erected by the Romans", the word
cestre (along with the form
ceastre), or even its
modern forms,
chester and
caster being derived from the Latin...
- ⁊
gange án
gemet ⁊ án geƿihte⋅ sƿilce man on Lunden-bẏrig ⁊ on Ƿintan-
ceastre healde⋅ ⁊ ga seo ƿæge ƿulle to ⋅cxx⋅ p̃. ⁊ nan man hig
undeoror ne sẏlle⋅...
-
suffix ceaster denoting a
Roman station, but
another theory is that Iren
Ceastre was an Anglo-Saxon name
meaning "iron fortress". In the 11th century, it...
