Editing Towcester (section)

==Etymology==
Towcester comes from the [[Old English]] ''Tōfeceaster''.<ref name="Bosworth-Toller" /> ''Tōfe'' refers to the [[River Tove]];<ref name="Edmunds1869" /> [[An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary|Bosworth and Toller]] compare it to the "Scandinavian proper names" ''Tófi'' and ''[[Tofa (Poetic Edda)|Tófa]]''.<ref name="Bosworth-Toller"/> The Old English ''ceaster'' comes from the Latin ''castra'' ("camp") and was "often applied to places in Britain which had been Roman encampments."<ref>"Chester." [[Oxford English Dictionary]]. [http://oed.com oed.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180201063925/http://www.oed.com/ |date=1 February 2018 }}</ref> Thus, Towcester means "Camp on the (river) [[River Tove|Tove]]."