Submitted Place Name Revision History

First recorded in 803, as Celtan hom; the meaning has not been resolved with certainty, but latest scholarship concludes that the first element preserves a pre-British noun cilta, 'steep hill', here referring to the Cotswold scarp; the second element may mean 'settlement' or 'water-meadow'. It could have also been named after a Saxon called "Celta". It features in the earliest pages of the Gloucestershire section of Domesday Book (1086) where it is named Chintenham. It is a town in the county of Gloucestershire in the South West of England, UK.