"already in place on some school equipment. The school was originally an all-boys school but in September 2006 admitted its first girls into the sixth form. In 2008, it became fully co-educational. In 2008, teacher David Bradley was awarded an MBE in the Queen's New Year Honours List for services to young people. North Cestrian Grammar School North Cestrian School is a school in Altrincham, Manchester, England, for pupils aged between 11 and 16. North Cestrian is part of the Hamblin Educational Trust. The school was opened in 1951 by Walter Hamblin, formerly headmaster of Altrincham Grammar School for Boys,"
"takes its first two syllables from the Roman name, with the addition of the Old English word ""ceaster"" 'Roman fortification'. This was shortened over time to Chester, the name used locally for the town (Latinised as ""Cestria""). But ""Chester"" is a common name for towns in England, and in the Middle Ages ""Street"", for the Roman road, was added. The Universal etymological English dictionary of 1749 gives the town as ""Chester upon Street"" (and describes it as ""a Village in the Bishoprick of Durham""). At some point this was shortened to the modern form. The town has a mild climate"
"Cirencester Cirencester (, ; see below for more variations) is a market town in east Gloucestershire, England, west northwest of London. Cirencester lies on the River Churn, a tributary of the River Thames, and is the largest town in the Cotswold District. It is the home of the Royal Agricultural University, the oldest agricultural college in the English-speaking world, founded in 1840. The town's Corinium Museum is well known for its extensive Roman collection. The Roman name for the town was Corinium, which is thought to have been associated with the ancient British tribe of the ""Dobunni"", having the same"
"De laude Cestrie De laude Cestrie (""On the Glory of Chester""), also known as Liber Luciani de laude Cestrie (""The Book of Lucian in Praise of Chester""), is a medieval English manuscript in Latin by Lucian of Chester, probably a monk at the Benedictine Abbey of St Werburgh in Chester. Believed to date from the end of the 12th century, it has been described as ""the oldest extant piece of Cheshire writing,"" and, with its first-hand description of the medieval town of Chester, is one of the earliest examples of prose writing about an English urban centre. It is also"
"Comedians Sport Music Chester Chester is a walled city in Cheshire, England, on the River Dee, close to the border with Wales. With a population of 118,200 in 2011, it is the most populous settlement of Cheshire West and Chester, which had a population of 332,200 in 2014. Chester was granted city status in 1541. Chester was founded as a ""castrum"" or Roman fort with the name ""Deva Victrix"" in the reign of the Emperor Vespasian in 79 AD. One of the main army camps in Roman Britain, Deva later became a major civilian settlement. In 689, King Æthelred of"
"Alcester Alcester () is a market town and civil parish of Roman origin at the junction of the River Alne and River Arrow in Warwickshire, England, approximately west of Stratford-upon-Avon, and 8 miles south of Redditch, close to the Worcestershire border. The 2011 census recorded a population of 6,273. The poet and antiquary John Leland wrote in his Itinerary (ca. 1538-43) that the name Alcester was derived from that of the River Alne. The suffix 'cester' is derived from the Saxon word 'ceaster', which meant a Roman fort or town, and derived from the Latin 'castrum', from which the modern"
"Cheshunt Cheshunt ( ) is a town in the Borough of Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, lying entirely within the London Metropolitan Area and Greater London Urban Area. It is north of central London and has a population of around 52,000 according to the United Kingdom's 2001 Census. The Prime Meridian passes to the east of Cheshunt. The town name comes from the Old English name (as recorded in the ""Domesday Book"") for the area, ""Cestrehunt"", which probably refers to a ""castle, erected by the Romans"", the word ""cestre"" (along with the form ""ceastre""), or even its modern forms, chester and caster being"
"Chester Chester is a walled city in Cheshire, England, on the River Dee, close to the border with Wales. With a population of 118,200 in 2011, it is the most populous settlement of Cheshire West and Chester, which had a population of 332,200 in 2014. Chester was granted city status in 1541. Chester was founded as a ""castrum"" or Roman fort with the name ""Deva Victrix"" in the reign of the Emperor Vespasian in 79 AD. One of the main army camps in Roman Britain, Deva later became a major civilian settlement. In 689, King Æthelred of Mercia founded the"
"is described by Faulkner as ""self-consciously filigree"", and employs several rare words. ""De laude Cestrie"" provides a first-hand account of the town of Chester and its associated county at the end of the 12th century, under Ranulf de Blondeville (1170–1232). It is among the earliest surviving prose descriptions of an English urban centre, as well as of an urban eulogy (""encomium urbis"") in praise of an English town. An earlier example praising London, ""Descriptio Nobilissimae Civitatis Londoniae"", was written by William fitz Stephen in 1173–75. (Alcuin's Latin poem to York dates from the late 8th century; a 12th-century Old English"
"Welsh exonyms The modern Welsh language contains names for many towns and other geographical features in Great Britain and elsewhere. Names of places outside Wales are exonyms. In some cases, these derive from the Brythonic names which were used during or before the Roman occupation: for example, """" (London), """" (Cornwall), """" (Devon), and """" (York). In Britain, towns were a Roman innovation. Many English county towns, founded as Roman ""castra"" and now having the English suffix ""-c(h)ester"", have Welsh names, in most cases using the prefix ""Caer-"". Examples include """" or """" (for Chester), """" (Gloucester), """" (Worcester), """""
"Caistor Caistor is a town and civil parish situated in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. As its name implies, it was originally a Roman castrum or fortress. It lies at the north-west edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds, on the Viking Way, and just off the A46 between Lincoln and Grimsby, at the A46, A1084, A1173 and B1225 junction. It has a population of 2,601. Its name comes from the Anglo-Saxon ""ceaster"" (""Roman camp"" or ""town"") and was given in the ""Domesday Book"" as ""Castre"". Only a few fragments of the 4th-century walls remain; for example, the original Roman"
"Chester-le-Street Chester-le-Street () is a town in County Durham, England. Its history goes back to the building of a Roman fort called Concangis. This Roman fort is the ""Chester"" (from the Latin ""castra"") of the town's name; the ""Street"" refers to the paved Roman road that ran north–south through the town, and which is now called Front Street. Chester-le-Street is located south of Newcastle upon Tyne and west of Sunderland on the River Wear. The parish church of St Mary and St Cuthbert is where the body of St Cuthbert remained for 112 years before being transferred to Durham Cathedral,"
"Worcester Worcester ( ) is a city in Worcestershire, England, southwest of Birmingham, west-northwest of London, north of Gloucester and northeast of Hereford. The population is approximately 100,000. The River Severn flanks the western side of the city centre, which is overlooked by Worcester Cathedral. The Battle of Worcester was the final battle of the English Civil War, where Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army defeated King Charles I's Cavaliers. Worcester is known as the home of Royal Worcester Porcelain, composer Edward Elgar, Lea & Perrins, makers of traditional Worcestershire sauce, University of Worcester, and Berrow's Worcester Journal, claimed to be"
"ancient track, perhaps of Roman origin, crosses the modern Buckstones Road leading to Castleshaw Roman fort in neighbouring Saddleworth. In 616 Æthelfrith of Bernicia, an Anglo-Saxon king, crossed the Pennines with an army and passed through Manchester to defeat the Britons in the Battle of Chester. A wave of Anglian colonists followed this military conquest and their settlements are identified by the Old English suffix ""ton"" in local place names. Royton, Middleton, Moston, Clayton, Ashton and Crompton are localities northeast of Manchester which may have been founded during that colonisation, suggesting that Crompton as a settlement could date from the"
"the original A-text), who may have come from Gloucester, taking part in the Battle of Dyrham in 577, when the city was conquered by the Anglo-Saxons. http://www.glosarch.org.uk/Gloucestercityresearch.html#GLEVUM Glevum Glevum (or, more formally, Colonia Nervia Glevensium, or occasionally ""Glouvia"") was a Roman fort in Roman Britain that became a ""colonia"" of retired legionaries in AD 97. Today, it is known as Gloucester, located in the English county of Gloucestershire. The name Glevum is taken by many present-day businesses in the area and also by the 26-mile ""Glevum Way"", a long-distance footpath or recreational walk encircling modern Gloucester. Glevum was established around"
"In ninth-century Old Welsh the city was known as ""Cair Ceri"" (literally ""Fort Ceri""), translated ""Cirrenceaster"", ""Cirneceaster"", or ""Cyrneceaster"" (dative ""Cirrenceastre"", ""Cirneceastre"", ""Cyrneceastre"") in the Old English of the Anglo-Saxons, where ""ceaster"" means ""fort"" or ""fortress"". The Old English ""c"" was pronounced . The Normans mispronounced the sound as , resulting in the modern name ""Cirencester"" . The form , spelled ""Cirencester"" or ""Ciceter"", was once used locally. This pronunciation is humorously highlighted in a 1928 limerick from ""Punch"": Sometimes the form ""Cicester"" was heard instead. These forms are now very rarely used, while many local people abbreviate the name"
"Chesterfield Chesterfield is a market town and borough in Derbyshire, England. It lies north of Derby and south of Sheffield at the confluence of the rivers Rother and Hipper. Including Whittington, Brimington and Staveley it had a population of about 103,800 in 2011, making it the second largest town in the ceremonial county after Derby. Archaeologists trace it back to a Roman fort built in the 1st century AD, but soon abandoned. Later an Anglo-Saxon village developed. The name derives from the Old English ""ceaster"" (a Roman fort) and ""feld"" (grazing land). It has a street market of some 250"
"home to Lancaster University and a campus of the University of Cumbria. The city's name, first recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 as ""Loncastre"", where ""Lon"" refers to the River Lune, and ""castre"", from the Old English ""cæster"" and Latin ""castrum"" for ""fort"", refers to the Roman fort which stood at the site. A Roman fort was built by the end of the 1st century AD on the hill where Lancaster Castle now stands, and possibly as early as the 60s, based on Roman coin evidence. The coin evidence also suggests that the fort was not continuously inhabited in"
"of England. Many English county towns, founded as Roman ""castra"" and now having the English suffix ""-c(h)ester"", also have Welsh names, in most cases using the prefix ""Caer-"". Examples include ""Caer"" or ""Caerlleon"" (for Chester), ""Caerloyw"" (Gloucester), ""Caerwrangon"" (Worcester), ""Caergrawnt"" (Cambridge, from Grantchester), and ""Caerwynt"" (Winchester). In some other cases, Welsh names are translations of the English name, often influenced by the Welsh poetic tradition – for example, ""Rhydychen"" (literally, ""oxen ford"") for Oxford, and ""Gwlad-yr-haf"" (""land of summer"") for Somerset. There are some erroneous ""translations"" such as ""Rhydwely"" for Bedford, which is actually derived from an English personal name"
"and sometimes as Cuncacestre the Latin name for Chester-le-Street) stretching between the boundaries of Danelaw at Teesside in the south, of Alba at Lothian in the north and the Irish sea in the west. The bishop's authority was confirmed by Alfred the Great, and for the next 112 years the community was based here, visited by kings Æthelstan and Edmund, who both left gifts for the community, to add to the treasures brought from Lindisfarne. Most notable among their treasures were the Lindisfarne Gospels, created in Lindisfarne around 715. While here they were translated from Latin into English, sometime between"
"under the control of Kent County Council and is still part of the ceremonial county of Kent, under the latest Lieutenancies Act. The Romano-British name for Rochester was Durobrivae, later Durobrivis c. 730 and Dorobrevis in 844. The two commonly cited origins of this name are that it either came from ""stronghold by the bridge(s)"" or is the latinisation of the British word ""Dourbruf"" meaning ""swiftstream"". Durobrivis was pronounced 'Robrivis. In later times, the word ""cæster"" (=castle, from Latin ""castrum"") was added to the name and the city was called ""Robrivis Cæster"". Bede mentions the city in ca. 730 and"
"Gloucester and Double Gloucester cheeses. Rudder, Samuel. (1779) ""A New History of Gloucestershire"". Reprint: Nonsuch Publishing, 2006. (Free download of original here: """") Gloucestershire Gloucestershire (, ; formerly abbreviated as Gloucs. in print but now often as Glos.) is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean. The county town is the city of Gloucester, and other principal towns include Cheltenham, Stroud, Tewkesbury, Cirencester and Dursley. Gloucestershire borders Herefordshire to the northwest, Wiltshire to the south, Bristol and"
"industry. The origins of the name Gloucester are related to ""Caerloyw"", its name in modern Welsh. The name 'caerloyw' is composed of two parts: caer (meaning fort, stronghold or castle, and whose cognate is the suffix ""cester"", both deriving from the Latin ""castrum"") and 'loyw', a linguistic mutation of 'gloyw', meaning bright or shining. The name Gloucester thus means roughly ""bright fort"". There are various appellations of the city's name in history, such as Caer Glow, Gleawecastre, Gleucestre as an early British settlement is not confirmed by direct evidence. However, Gloucester was the Roman municipality of Colonia Nervia Glevensium, or"
"616, Æthelfrith of Northumbria defeated a Welsh army at the Battle of Chester and probably established the Anglo-Saxon position in the area from then on. The Anglo-Saxons adopted the native name as the calque Legeceaster, which over time was shortened to Ceaster and finally corrupted to Chester. In 689, King Æthelred of Mercia founded the Minster Church of West Mercia on what is considered to be an early Christian site and known as the Minster of St John the Baptist, Chester (now St John the Baptist's Church), which later became the city's first cathedral. In the 9th century, the body"
"yearly highlight. The only year the competition wasn't hosted in Macclesfield was 2011 during a diesel shortage. Macclesfield Macclesfield is a market town and civil parish in Cheshire, England. The population of Macclesfield at the 2011 census was 52,044. A person from Macclesfield is sometimes referred to as a ""Maxonian"". Macclesfield, like many other areas in Cheshire, is a relatively affluent town. Situated in the ancient Hundred of Hamestan, the town is recorded in the ""Domesday Book"" as ""Maclesfeld"" and in 1183 it was referred to as ""Makeslesfeld"". The English Place-Name Society gives its name as being derived from the"
"Gloucestershire Gloucestershire (, ; formerly abbreviated as Gloucs. in print but now often as Glos.) is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean. The county town is the city of Gloucester, and other principal towns include Cheltenham, Stroud, Tewkesbury, Cirencester and Dursley. Gloucestershire borders Herefordshire to the northwest, Wiltshire to the south, Bristol and Somerset to the south west, Worcestershire to the north, Oxfordshire to the east, Warwickshire to the northeast, and the Welsh county of Monmouthshire"
"Gloucester Gloucester () is a city and district in Gloucestershire, in the South West of England, of which it is the county town. Gloucester lies close to the Welsh border, on the River Severn, between the Cotswolds to the east and the Forest of Dean to the southwest. Gloucester was founded in AD 97 by the Romans under Emperor Nerva as ""Colonia Glevum Nervensis"", and was granted its first charter in 1155 by King Henry II. Economically, the city is dominated by the service industries, and has a strong financial and business sector, and historically was prominent in the aerospace"
"'City of the Legion' is arguably Caerleon, Welsh ""Caerllion"", the 'Fortress of the Legion', and the only candidate with a long and continuous military presence that lay within a Romanised region of Britain, with nearby towns and a Roman ""civitas"". Other candidates are Chester and Carlisle, though both were located far from the Romanised area of Britain and had a transitory, more military-oriented history. A parenthetical note concerns Saint Patrick, a patron saint of Ireland. He was a Briton born c. 387 in ""Banna Venta Berniae"", a location that is unknown due to the transcription errors in surviving manuscripts. His"
"complete. The Industrial Revolution brought railways, canals, and new roads to the city, which saw substantial expansion and development – Chester Town Hall and the Grosvenor Museum are examples of Victorian architecture from this period. The Roman Legio II Adiutrix during the reign of the Emperor Vespasian founded Chester in AD 79, as a ""castrum"" or Roman fort with the name ""Deva Victrix"". It was established in the land of the Celtic Cornovii, according to ancient cartographer Ptolemy, as a fortress during the Roman expansion northward, and was named Deva either after the goddess of the Dee, or directly from"
"The city grew as a trading port until the power of the Port of Liverpool overtook it. However the city did not decline and during the Georgian and Victorian periods was seen as a place of escape from the more industrial cities of Manchester and Liverpool. The Romans founded Chester as Deva Victrix in AD 70s in the land of the Celtic Cornovii, according to ancient cartographer Ptolemy, as a fortress during the Roman expansion north. It was named Deva either after the goddess of the Dee, or directly from the British name for the river. The 'victrix' part of"
"commuters, and is less than away from London Stansted Airport and from the passenger ferry port of Harwich. Colchester is home to Colchester Castle and Colchester United Football Club. The demonym is Colcestrian. There is a variety of theories about the derivation of the name ""Colchester"". Some contend that is derived from the Latin words ""Colonia"" (referring to a type of Roman settlement with rights equivalent to those of Roman citizens, one of which was believed to have been founded in the vicinity of Colchester) and ""Castra"", meaning ""fortifications"" (referring to the town's walls, the oldest in Britain). The earliest"
"club. The following came from Chellaston: Chellaston Chellaston is a suburb in the south of the City of Derby, which is in the East Midlands of England. It is on a natural hill, and has recently expanded due to several new housing estates. An early mention of Chellaston is thought to be a reference to Ceolarde's hill. This is mentioned in a 1009 charter when nearby land was given to Morcar by Ethelred the Unready. Historically, Chellaston has been part of the Hundred of Repton and Gresley. Chellaston was a separate village and was worth three shillings when the king"
"modern Welsh """". (The town's importance is noted by its taking the simpler form in each case, while Isca Augusta in Monmouthshire, another important legionary base, was known first as Caerleon on the Usk, and now as Caerleon). King Arthur is said to have fought his ninth battle at the ""city of the legions"" (""Caerlleon"") and later St Augustine came to the city to try to unite the church, and held his synod with the Welsh Bishops. In 616, Æthelfrith of Northumbria defeated a Welsh army at the brutal and decisive Battle of Chester, and probably established the Anglo-Saxon position"