The story
- Old English · inherited fromċȳse“cheese”
- English todayKeswick
From Old English ċȳse (“cheese”) and wīc (“farm”); alternatively, cheese + -wick; the alteration of /tʃ/ to /k/ is down to Old Norse influence.
Words from the same roots
Old Englishċȳse all →
Cheswick
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.