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Origin of the name WIGSTAN.
Etymology of the
name WIGSTAN.
Meaning of the baby name WIGSTAN.
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WIGSTAN. Anglo-Saxon
name meaning "war stone," from Old English wig "strife, war," and
stan "stone." Also spelled Wihstan.
And see Skeat's article under the Norman form Wikestan. (The
Place-names of Bedfordshire, Skeat, 1906; Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum,
Searle, 1897).
ENSTONE (9th S. iii. 128, 332).—I
was interested to see at the last reference that there is a tradition
that the village of Winstone, near Cirencester, derived its name from a
stone erected by a king of Wessex to commemorate a victory, because it
apparently confirms a theory I put forward last year in writing upon the
Lancashire name Winstanley, namely, that "Winstan" should be
equated with "Wigstan," and literally meant
"war-stone" or "battle-stone," and probably denoted
a monument. HY. HARRISON.
(Notes and Queries, 9th Series, v.3, Jan-Jun, 1899)
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