Viking Names
Car Colston
The first element of Colston, in the Bingham Wapentake of Nottinghamshire, is probably the Old Norse male personal name Kolr combined with the Old English element tun ‘an enclosure; a farmstead; a village; an estate’. Thus it is an Anglo-Scandinavian hybrid name. The later prefix Car was added to distinguish this from Colston Bassett. Early spellings suggest that this developed from Old Norse kirkja, ‘church’, in its Middle English form kirk(e). Later this was undoubtedly confused with the word carr (Middle English ker), ‘marshland’, common in Nottinghamshire place-names.
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Viking Names
Kirkby in Ashfield
Kirkby in Ashfield, in the Broxtow Wapentake of Nottinghamshire, comes from Old Norse kirkja ‘a church’ and Old Norse bý ‘a farmstead, a village’. Ashfield is an old district name from Old English aesc ‘ash-tree’ and feld ‘open country, unencumbered ground’, though no mention of it has been found except in connection to Kirkby and Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.