Chesterton
Major Settlement in the Parish of Chesterton and Kingston
Historical Forms
- Cestretune 1043 KCD916 17th
- Cestertuna t.Hy1 Kenilworth
- Cestretone, Cestedone 1086 DB
- Ceastretona a.1170 Monast
- Cestertona 1185 Templars
- Cestreton(e) 1198 Fees 1326 Pat
- Chesterton 17th KCD939 1350 Ch 1353 Ipm 1387 ADiii
- Chestreton 1320 Pat
- Casterton 1232,1293 Ass
- Chasterton 1293,1297,1332 t.Ed4 MinAcct
Etymology
'The farm by the Roman camp or settlement,' v. ceaster , tun .The place lies about a mile from the Fosse Way and on this, at a point a mile and a quarter from the present church, there is a Roman camp. Cf. VCH i, 234 ff. “That such fortified places had the name of Ceastre by our Ancestors the Saxons, is evident enough” (Dugdale 374).