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Signposts to the past: Place-names and the history of England

Gelling,Margaret

J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd.

In this text, the author presents details of her research on the way in which numerous place-names are strongly rooted in the physical features of the land. Using a thematic approach, she describes how varied physical characteristics, such as hills and valleys, trees and forests, marshes, moors, springs and lakes have shaped place-names and establishes a general picture of a people in possession of a vast and topographical vocabulary.

Place-names in the landscape

Reference

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Dent

Place-Names in the Landscape

Travel

Europe

The boundaries of this county were greatly modified in the reorganization of local government. In 1974, a substantial area of Berkshire was transferred to Oxfordshire, including Abingdon, Faringdon, East & West Hendred, Wallingford, and Wantage. Information on these places must be sought in the Berkshire volumes. Introduction (with sections on geology and settlement by W. J. Arkell). Bibliography, notes on the dialect, road and river names, place-names of the City of Oxford, and of the Hundreds of Langree, Binfield, Pyrton, Lewknor, Thame, Dorchester, Bullingdon, and Ploughley. Parish names in this Part include Benson, Culham, Dorchester, Henley upon Thames, Lewknor and Thame.

English Place-Name Society: Volume 23, The Place-Names of Oxfordshire, Part 1

Literature & Fiction

Cambridge University Press

The boundaries of this county were greatly modified in the reorganization of local government. In 1974, a substantial area of Berkshire was transferred to Oxfordshire, including Abingdon, Faringdon, East & West Hendred, Wallingford, and Wantage. Information on these places must be sought in the Berkshire volumes. Place-names of the Hundreds of Wootton, Bampton, Chadlington, Bloxham, and Banbury; glossaries, appendix on charter boundaries; 2 maps (hundreds & parishes, and geology) bound in. Among the parish names in this part are Banbury, Burford, Eynsham, Heythrop, Minster Lovell, Brize Norton, Chipping Norton, the Tews, and Witney.

English Place-Name Society: Volume 24, The Place-Names of Oxfordshire, Part 2

The West Midlands in the Early Middle Ages (Studies in the Early History of Britain)

History

UNKNO

Hills, valleys, trees and forests, roads and tracks, marshes and moors, ploughland and pastures, rivers and lakes: in the names of these and many other features history and tradition lie buried. Now, in her classic work, one of the foremost scholars of place-names unearths the meaning of these appellations, revealing a hidden past--invasions, the movement of whole peoples, the changing use of land. Every place, and its name, tells a story.

Phoenix_Press

Signposts to the Past by Margaret Gelling The second edition of a widely used introduction to place-names and their significance: Latin, Celtic, English, Scandinavian and French names; chronology, boundaries, place-names and archaeology, personal names. 280p with figs (Phillimore, 2nd edn 1998)

Signposts to the Past: English Place Names

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Phillimore & Co.

Signposts to the Past

World

Phillimore & Company

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