Chester (placename element)
Alchester
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Geographic clustering of the suffixes:
-caster 
-cester 
-chester 
-cetter/-xeterThe 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.[1] Names ending in -cester are nearly always reduced to -ster when spoken, the exception being "Cirencester", which is pronounced in full.[2] The pronunciation of names ending in -chester or -caster is regular.
A[]
- Acaster Malbis
- Acaster Selby
- Alcester
- Alchester
- Ancaster
B[]
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
D[]
- Doncaster
- Dorchester
- Dorset, Dor-chester-seat
- Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire
E[]
- Ebchester
- Exeter
F[]
G[]
- Gloucester
- Godmanchester
- Grantchester
H[]
I[]
K[]
L[]
- Lancaster
- Lancashire, Lune-caster-shire
- Lanchester
- Leicester
M[]
P[]
R[]
S[]
T[]
U[]
W[]
Notes[]
- ^ Ekwall, E. (1960). The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names (4th ed.). OUP. p. 92. ISBN 0-19-869103-3.
- ^ Wells, John C. (2000). Longman Pronunciation Dictionary. 2nd ed. Longman. ISBN 0-582-36468-X.
Categories:
- Place name element etymologies
- English toponymy