Chester (placename element)
The English place-name Chester, and the suffixes -chester, -caster and -cester, are commonly indications that the place is the site of a Roman castrum, meaning a military camp or fort, 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.
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- Caistor
- Caistor St Edmund
- Caister-on-Sea
- Casterton
- Castor, Cambridgeshire
- Chester
- Chesterfield
- Chesterford, Great
- Chesterford, Little
- Chester-le-Street
- Chesterton (disambiguation)
- Chesterwood
- Chichester
- Cirencester
- Colchester
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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.