Eaglesfield, Cumbria

Eaglesfield is a small settlement in the county of Cumbria, in England. It is near the A5086 road and is 2. 5 miles (4 km) southwest of the town of Cockermouth. EtymologyEaglesfield lay in the early Middle Ages within the British kingdom of Rheged, and the first element of the name is perhaps derived from the Brythonic 'eccles' "church" (cognate with Welsh 'eglwys' 'church'. The meaning would be 'open land near a British church' - something that the Anglian settlers would have seen as they "arrived and settled some two miles away down below at Brigham. " (The second element, 'Feld', is Old English for 'open country'). Alternatively, it means 'Ecgel's open land' ('Ecgel's feld'). 'Ecgel' is a personal name and possibly "a normal diminutive of compound names such as 'Ecglaf', or Ecgwulf' ". Notable peopleEaglesfield was the birthplace of John Dalton (1766–1844), acclaimed chemist, meteorologist and physicist. Eaglesfield was the probable birthplace of Robert de Eglesfield (c. 1295–1349)(nb: provisional research only - see Talk page

Eaglesfield is a small settlement in the county of Cumbria, in England. It is near the A5086 road and is 2. 5 miles (4 km) southwest of the town of Cockermouth. EtymologyEaglesfield lay in the early Middle Ages within the British kingdom of Rheged, and the first element of the name is perhaps derived from the Brythonic 'eccles' "church" (cognate with Welsh 'eglwys' 'church'. The meaning would be 'open land near a British church' - something that the Anglian settlers would have seen as they "arrived and settled some two miles away down below at Brigham. " (The second element, 'Feld', is Old English for 'open country'). Alternatively, it means 'Ecgel's open land' ('Ecgel's feld'). 'Ecgel' is a personal name and possibly "a normal diminutive of compound names such as 'Ecglaf', or Ecgwulf' ". Notable peopleEaglesfield was the birthplace of John Dalton (1766–1844), acclaimed chemist, meteorologist and physicist. Eaglesfield was the probable birthplace of Robert de Eglesfield (c. 1295–1349)(nb: provisional research only - see Talk page