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What’s Behind our Town Name?

We’ll I found this little book and it had the following derivation of town names they came from several languages including Old English, British Celtic, and old Scandinavian.

Examples:

Spalding – The dwelling place of the Spaldings, an Anglo-Saxon Tribe. From the Old English Spald. A ditch or watercourse, and ingas the people of

So can we add anymore?

How about Pinchbech, Gosberton, Holbeach etc. ?

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