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basic meaning of the word
cadair (Middle Welsh/Early
Modern Welsh kadeir or
cadeir) is 'seat, chair' (borrowed from the Gr****
cathedra 'chair'). In
place names...
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Blencathra is
likely derived from the ****bric
elements *blain ‘top, summit’ and
cadeir ‘seat, chair’,
meaning ‘the
summit of the seat’.
Andrew Breeze has proposed...
- Healaugh, Tadcaster. The
first part of the name
Catterton is the
Brittonic cadeir, "chair, throne". This is
suffixed with the Old
English -tun, "a farm"....
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Nearby Chadderton is also pre-Anglo-Saxon in origin, from the Old
Welsh cadeir,
itself deriving from the
Latin cathedra meaning "chair".
Although Anglo-Saxons...
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Catterlen is
Brittonic in origin. The
first part of the name is the
element cadeir,
meaning "throne, chair" (see
Chatterton and
Chadderton in Lancashire, and...
- (modern Welsh: Caer),
indicating a
fortified place amongst the hills, or the
cadeir, "chair, throne", and the Old
English suffix -ton
meaning a settlement....
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Chadderton near Oldham, the name
Chatterton is
formed from the
Brittonic cadeir,
meaning "chair, throne" (Welsh cadair, see
Blencathra and
Catterlen in...
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Blencathra 'chair-shaped bare hill' or "Devil's Peak" from ****bric *blein *
cadeir or *blein *cuthrol Cat
Bells 'den of the wild cat' from OE catt and ME belde...
- 1015) and
possibly means ‘farmstead of the
people living by the hill
called Cadeir’, or
alternatively ‘farmstead of the
family or
followers of a man called...
