Talk:Castor
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Are you sure there is place in Norfolk called Castor? I know there is one called Caister, just north of Great Yarmouth, but not heard of castor... still, I may be wrong. User:203.134.93.132
- From "Norfolk: Caistor St Edmund (http://www.uea.ac.uk/~s090/genuki/NFK/places/c/caistor_st_edmund/white1845.shtml)", an article from William White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk (1845), as transcribed by Claire Reeve: "Caistor, though now an inconsiderable village, was at an early period the most flourishing city of the Britons, if not the residence of the Icenian kings. It was an important Roman Station, called Venta Icenorum, afterwards (for the sake of brevity) called Castrum, which the Saxons again altered to Castor." So it looks like just a variant name of Caistor St Edmund to me. Unless, of course, it's just a mistake, and the editor meant the Castor near Peterborough in Cambridgeshire... -- Oliver P. 06:40 13 Jun 2003 (UTC)