Editing Kentish Town (section)

==Toponymy==
The name of Kentish Town is probably derived from ''Ken-ditch'' or ''Caen-ditch'', meaning the "bed of a waterway" and is otherwise unrelated to the English county of [[Kent]].<ref>{{harvnb|Denford|2005|p=4}}</ref> In researching the meaning of ''Ken-ditch'', it has also been noted that ''ken'' is the Celtic word for both "green" and "river", while ''ditch'' refers to the [[River Fleet]], now a [[Subterranean rivers of London|subterranean river]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Conchie|first1=Peter|title=Warming to Kentish Town|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/warming-to-kentish-town-1164774.html|access-date=12 August 2017|work=The Independent|date=13 June 1998}}</ref> However, another theory is the name comes from its position near the Fleet; it has been suggested that Kentish Town, which lies in between two forks of the Fleet, takes its name from ''cant'' or ''cantle'' (from the Middle English<ref>{{cite web|title=Cantle - definition of cantle in English|url=https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/cantle|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160925094201/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/cantle|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 September 2016|website=Oxford English Dictionary|access-date=12 August 2017}}</ref> meaning "corner").<ref>{{cite book|last1=Pinks|first1=William John|last2=Wood|first2=Edward J.|title=The History of Clerkenwell|date=1881|publisher=Francis Boutle|isbn=9781903427088|page=375|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s09NAQAAMAAJ&q=kentish+town+ken-ditch&pg=PA375|access-date=12 August 2017|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Ashton|first1=John|title=The Fleet: Its River, Prison, and Marriages|date=1888|publisher=T. F. Unwin|page=[https://archive.org/details/fleetitsriverpr00ashtgoog/page/n56 32]|url=https://archive.org/details/fleetitsriverpr00ashtgoog|access-date=12 August 2017|language=en}}</ref>