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

Village sign of Rolleston Signpost showing Fiskerton, Southwell, Staythorpe, Newark and Rolleston Station © Judith Jesch Signpost showing Hazelford, Fiskerton and Rolleston © Judith Jesch

Rolleston

Rolleston, Nottinghamshire

Rolleston, in the Thurgarton Wapentake of Nottinghamshire, comes from the Old Norse male personal name Hróaldr and the Old English element tun ‘farm, settlement’. It is thus a hybrid name like others nearby, such as Gonalston.

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Collection

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. 173-4.

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