Viking Names
South Croxton
The first element of South Croxton, in the East Goscote Hundred of Leicestershire, likely comes from the Old Danish male personal name Krok (Old Norse Krókr, Middle English genitive singular Crokes), originally a byname meaning ‘crooked-back’, or possibly ‘crooked-dealer’ related to Old Norse krókr ‘hook’. Alternatively the first element could be Old English croc ‘a crook’, that is relating to a location situated in a nook or bend of land. The second element of the place-name is Old English tun ‘an enclosure; a farmstead; a village; an estate’. The Middle English affix suð ‘south’ distinguishes South Croxton from Croxton Kerrial in the Framland Hundred.
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Viking Names
Thrussington
Thrussington, in the East Goscote Hundred of Leicestershire, is an Anglo-Scandinavian hybrid from the common Old Norse male personal name Þorsteinn and Old English tun ‘an enclosure; a farmstead; a village; an estate’.
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Thurcaston
Thurcaston, in the West Goscote Hundred of Leicestershire, is a hybrid name. The first element comes from the Old Norse male personal name Þorketill, common in Norway, Iceland, Sweden and Denmark throughout the whole of the medieval period and also common in Normandy before 1066. Þorketill is an older version of the Old Norse male personal name Þorkell. The second element is Old English tun ‘farm, settlement’.