Chatteris.
A market town and civil parish with a town council in Fenland district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL3986).
Meaning & usage
A market town and civil parish with a town council in Fenland district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL3986).
Where this word comes from
Recorded in the Domesday Book (1086) in the Middle English forms Cetriz and Cateriz. Theories of its derivation include: * a borrowing from an unattested Old Welsh intermediary of Middle Welsh cadeir (“hill-fort”) and Medieval Latin cathedra, akin to Catterick * a derivation from Old English Ceatta (a personal name, as in St Ceatta) + rīc (kingdom, authority) * a derivation from Proto-Brythonic *koɨd (“wood, forest”) + *rrɨd (“ford”)
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