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Originally Posted by peter123  Hi there,
Why do the names of many cities in UK ended with '-chest' like Manchester, and '-shire' like Yorkshire. Any meaning in '-chester' and '-shire'?
many thanks
pete |
Hi Peter...cities or town names that end in -chester (eg Manchester) -caster (Doncaster) -cester (eg Leicester) are towns that were named during the period when Romans ruled in Britain. (54 BC to 410 AD) In some cases the "Caster" is used as a prefix, as in Casterton. All of these suffixes/prefixes mean "Camp" as in
military camp. Doncaster for example, means the camp on the River Don.
A shire is a county...Yorkshire, (Of which York is the "county town") Derbyshire (Derby being the county town)