[Image: Fragment of the Gough Map]
[Image: Fragment of the Gough Map]
The Gough Map of Great Britain
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Full record: Towcester
| County | Northamptonshire |
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| Transcript | [towcestre] |
| Icon description | single building |
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| Description | faded |
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| Etymology | Tove, river-name + ceaster, 'Roman settlement' |
| Translation | |
| Earlier editors | Castor or Thrapston (Gough); -/towcestre (OS 1935); towcestre (Parsons) |
| Early Maps | Towcet(er) (Angliae Figura) |
| Overwritten | no |
| Attested spelling | Towecestre t. John, c. 1220 For |
