Editing Alcester (section)

==Etymology==
The [[poet]] and [[antiquary]] [[John Leland (antiquary)|John Leland]] wrote in his ''Itinerary'' (ca. 1538–43) that the name Alcester was derived from that of the [[River Alne]].<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PKW8PwnSiVMC&q=alcester+etymology%2F&pg=PA68 |title=Sixteenth-century Identities |first=A. J. |last=Piesse |date=25 January 2001 |publisher=Manchester University Press |via=Google Books |isbn=9780719053832 |access-date=29 October 2020 |archive-date=2 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230202031315/https://books.google.com/books?id=PKW8PwnSiVMC&q=alcester+etymology%2F&pg=PA68 |url-status=live }}</ref> The suffix 'cester' is derived from the [[Old English]] word 'ceaster', which meant a [[Roman fort]] or town, and derived from the [[Latin]] 'castrum', from which the modern word '[[castle]]' also derives.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.localhistories.org/names.html/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141027063501/http://www.localhistories.org/names.html |url-status=dead |title=Local Histories |archive-date=27 October 2014}}</ref>