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CHIPPENHAM (Settlement) English
One possibility for its naming may have been from Cyppa's Hamme which comes from the words ce-ap meaning market, and Hamme meaning enclosed by the river or an enclosed water meadow both of which Chippenham was.... [more]

DEVIZES (Settlement) English
Derived from castrum ad divisas, latin for “castle at the boundary”

SWINDON (Settlement) English
Previously it was called Suindune which could have been derived from the Old English words "swine" and "dun" meaning "pig hill" or possibly Sweyn's hill which was probably the owner’s name

TROWBRIDGE (Settlement) English
It could be derived from the Old English treow-brycg which means “tree bridge”... [more]

TUONELA (Other) Finnish Mythology
The Finnish Land of the Dead in the Kalevala