The story
- Old English · derived fromcastel“pile of stones, castle”
- English todayChesham
First attested as Cæstæleshamm before the year 970, probably from Old English castel (“pile of stones, castle”) + hamm (“water meadow”). By surface analysis, Chess + -ham, whence the local pronunciation, referring to the River Chess in Buckinghamshire, though the river was named after the settlement.
Words from the same roots
Old Englishcastel all →
castle
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.