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List of Illustrations | 13 |
The Earliest English SettlementNames | 63 |
Scandinavian Placenames | 75 |
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13th century affix Anglo-Saxon appears areas barrow bridge Castle Celtic Celtic names century church compound counties Danelaw dative denote derived from Old dialectal district Domesday Book earlier early forms early spellings East enclosure English place-names English word Ermine Street etymology examples farm farmstead or village field-names folk-name ford Forest French frequently Gate genitive glade Herefordshire hill homestead identical inghams Lancashire Lane later Latin Lincolnshire manor medieval Middle English Midlands minor names Nottingham occasionally occurs Old Danish Old English Old Norse open land origin perhaps probably refers ridge river river-names Roman road Romano-British Ryknield Street Saxons second element self-explanatory sense settlement shire Similarly simplex name sometimes South stone stream Street survives Thorpe town tūn usually valley wapentake Watling Street West West Midlands wood Yorkshire