| Hesketh
and Becconsall
Hesketh
comes from Hes + Skeidt - Viking and means Horse + Track.
Which is basically "Race track". Apparently the Viking were
quite passionate about pitting their horse against one another.
The squire or lord of the manor (ancestor of the Heskeths)
built a track for horse racing on the banks of the Ribble
(probably Hesketh Marsh) and that's where the name comes
from. One of the old spellings of the name is "Heskaithe"
or "Heskaite", which is very similar to the original. Becconsall
is given as being derived from Beacons Hill. However, an
alternative may be Beccan + haugr. This means "burial mound
of Beccan". It would have been "Beccan his haugr" then "Beccan's
haugr" then Becconsawe, which is the old spelling (1300s).
Beccan is an old Irish name and it may be that the Vikings
who settled in that area did not come straight from Scandanavia
but came in under an agreement of A.D. 902 with King Aethelraed
(Ethelred), which allowed peaceful settlement there. If
so, then they came from a Viking settlement quite near Dublin.
Tarleton
A
suggestion for the origins of Tarleton is that it was derived
from Jarle's Town, an early Viking settlement on the banks
of the river Douglas.
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