Dunkeswick
Dunkeswick is a hamlet in North Yorkshire, around a kilometre north of Harewood and two kilometres south of Kirkby Overblow. Dunkewsick Moor is noted as the site of the Knight Air Flight 816 crash in 1995.
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| OS grid reference | SE3046 |
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| Shire county | |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Etymology
The name of Dunkeswick comes from the Old English words cēse ('cheese') and wīc ('dwelling, specialised farm'), and thus once meant 'farm specialising in cheese production'. The fact that keswick begins with [k-] rather than the [tʃ] sound of cheese, however, reflects the influence of Old Norse pronunciation on the local language. The additional element Dun seems to have been added to distinguish the settlement from other places called Keswick, such as the nearby East Keswick.[1]:42
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- Harry Parkin, Your City's Place-Names: Leeds, English Place-Name Society City-Names Series, 3 (Nottingham: English Place-Name Society, 2017).
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