Keswick

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A market town in Cumbria, England, set in the Lake District near Derwentwater ; a community in southern Ontario, Canada, on the shore of Lake Simcoe
2. A small town in the Lake District of northwest England, close to Derwentwater ; a place in the Canadian province of Ontario near Lake Simcoe
3. An English town in Cumbria famed for its pencil industry and lakeside setting ; a settlement in Ontario, Canada, located along the shore of a large lake

Etymology: Keswick is a town in England's Lake District, and its name records a dairy. The first element comes from Old English "ċȳse", meaning "cheese", and the second from "wīc", meaning "farm" or dairy farm, so the name originally described a place where cheese was made. The "k" sound in the modern spelling, rather than the "ch" you might expect from "cheese", is the result of Old Norse influence on the local speech, which turned the sound from "ch" to "k".