Village sign of Gonalston
Village sign in Nottinghamshire. Photo Judith Jesch

Gonalston

Gonalston, Nottinghamshire

Gonalston, in the Thurgarton Wapentake of Nottinghamshire, comes from the Old Norse male personal name Gunnolfr and the Old English tun ‘farm, settlement’. It is thus a hybrid name, like Toton.

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Viking Names

Keywords

hybrid name, Nottinghamshire, place-name

Further information

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References

J.E.B. Gover, Allen Mawer and F.M. Stenton, The Place-Names of Nottinghamshire. English Place-Name Society Volume XVII (1940), pp. 166-7.

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