Chester (placename element)

The English place-name Chester, and the suffixes -chester, -caster and -cester (old -ceaster), are commonly indications that the place is the site of a Roman castrum, meaning a military camp or fort (cf. Welsh caer), but it can also apply to the site of a pre-historic fort. Names ending in -cester are nearly always reduced to -ster when spoken, the exception being "Cirencester", which (commonly nowadays) is pronounced in full. However, names ending in -ster are not necessarily related, as the Irish province of Leinster, which comes from the tribe Laigin + Irish tír or Old Norse staðr, both meaning "land" or "territory". The pronunciation of names ending in -chester or -caster is regular.

A

 * Acaster Malbis
 * Acaster Selby
 * Alcester
 * Alchester
 * Ancaster

B

 * Bicester
 * Binchester
 * Brancaster

C

 * Caister-on-Sea
 * Caistor
 * Caistor St Edmund
 * Casterton, Cumbria
 * Casterton, Great, Rutland
 * Casterton, Little, Rutland
 * Castor, Cambridgeshire
 * Chester
 * Cheshire, Chester-shire
 * Chester, Little, Derby
 * Chesterfield
 * Chesterford, Great
 * Chesterford, Little
 * Chester-le-Street
 * Chesterton (disambiguation)
 * Chesterwood
 * Chichester
 * Cirencester
 * Colchester

D

 * Doncaster
 * Dorchester
 * Dorset, Dor-chester-seat
 * Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire

E

 * Ebchester
 * Exeter

F

 * Frocester

G

 * Gloucester
 * Godmanchester
 * Grantchester

H

 * Hincaster

I

 * Ilchester
 * Irchester

K

 * Kenchester

L

 * Lancaster
 * Lancashire, Lune-caster-shire
 * Lanchester
 * Leicester

M

 * Mancetter
 * Manchester
 * Muncaster

P

 * Portchester

R

 * Ribchester
 * Rocester
 * Rochester, Kent
 * Rochester, Northumberland

S

 * Silchester

T

 * Tadcaster
 * Towcester

U

 * Uttoxeter

W

 * Winchester
 * Woodchester
 * Worcester
 * Wroxeter