English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Geeston

Early-attested site in the Parish of Ketton

Historical Forms

  • Gyston 1286 Ass
  • Giston in Keten' 1316 Ct
  • Geston 1557 FF
  • Geeston 1602 Recov 1610 Speed 1620 Map 1624 Deed
  • Geeson 1705 Anc 1811 Blore

Etymology

Probably 'Gyssa's farmstead', v. tūn , cf. Gissing Nf. For illustration of its surviving medieval earthworks, v. MER 23–4.