English Place-Name Society: Volume 49, The Place-Names of Berkshire, Part 1
ISBN-10:
0521085756
ISBN-13:
9780521085755
Released: Dec 07, 1972
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardcover, 306 pages
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Description:
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.
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