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Survey of English Place-Names

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Fiddleston Plantation

Other OS name in the Parish of Burton

Historical Forms

  • Fiddleston 1817 EnclA
  • Fiddleston Common Plantation 1843 TA
  • Fiddlestone 1847 TAMap

Etymology

( 109–326747 ) , Fiddleston 1817EnclA ,Fiddleston Common Plantation 1843TA , Fiddlestone 1847TAMap , perhaps an old p.n. in stān or tūn , cf. Dunstan supra . The first el . could be the ON  pers by-name Fiðill ' the fiddle-player ' , v. commun , (ge)hæg .