Kedleston

Kedeleston, Derbyshire

Kedleston, in the Appletree Hundred of Derbyshire, is a hybrid formation of the common Old Norse male personal name Ketill and the Old English element tun ‘farm, settlement’.

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Viking Names

Keywords

Derbyshire, hybrid name, place-name

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Acknowledgements

Image © Eamon Curry, via Geograph, CC BY-SA 2.0

References

Kenneth Cameron, The Place-Names of Derbyshire III. English Place-Name Society Volume XXIX (1959), p. 580.