Gamston

Gamston, Nottinghamshire

Gamston, in the Bassetlaw Wapentake of Nottinghamshire, is a hybrid name from the Old Norse male personal name Gamall and Old English tun ‘an enclosure; a farmstead; a village; an estate’.

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Collection

Viking Names

Keywords

hybrid name, male_name, Nottinghamshire, place-name

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Acknowledgements

Image © Richard Vince, via Geograph, CC BY-SA 2.0

References

J.E.B. Gover, Allen Mawer and F.M. Stenton, The Place-Names of Nottinghamshire. English Place-Name Society Volume XVII (1940), p. 51.