Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CASTER, Cester, or Chester

CASTER, Cester, or Chester, a word varied from the Saxon "ceaster" or the Latin "castrum," signifying a camp, a fort, a castle, a fortified town, or a city, and used often, in conjunction with other words, to designate places which had ancient military strengths.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a word varied from the Saxon "ceaster" or the Latin "castrum"
Place names: CASTER     |     CASTER CESTER OR CHESTER     |     CESTER     |     CHESTER