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List of Illustrations | 14 |
Types of Placename Formations | 27 |
Celtic Placenames and Rivernames | 33 |
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13th century affix Anglo-Saxon appears areas barrow Castle Celtic Celtic names century church COMMON MODERN FORMS 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 French frequently genitive glade Herefordshire hill homestead identical inghams Lancashire Lane later Latin Lincolnshire manor medieval Middle English Midlands minor names Norman Conquest 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 similar Similarly simplex name sometimes South stone stream Street survives town tūn usually valley wapentake Watling Street West West Midlands wood Yorkshire