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... field may now be very different . The ld open fields may still remain as North , South , East though what was once ... names as a of length . Modern names which include Dole ( s ) or Old English dāl , can be found in many parishes in the ...
... field may now be very different . The ld open fields may still remain as North , South , East though what was once ... names as a of length . Modern names which include Dole ( s ) or Old English dāl , can be found in many parishes in the ...
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Kenneth Cameron. MINOR NAMES AND FIELD - NAMES August 1st and the following spring ; Pest and Pesthouse are named from hospitals for those suffering from a plague ; and Rainbow apparently often refers to the custom of ploughing parallel ...
Kenneth Cameron. MINOR NAMES AND FIELD - NAMES August 1st and the following spring ; Pest and Pesthouse are named from hospitals for those suffering from a plague ; and Rainbow apparently often refers to the custom of ploughing parallel ...
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... field - names " , Proceedings of the 13th ongress of Onomastic Sciences 1978 , Cracow , 1979 . rogress in field - name studies " , Local Historian , vol . 13 , No. 38-96 . Rutland field - names : some comparisons and contrasts ” , rd ...
... field - names " , Proceedings of the 13th ongress of Onomastic Sciences 1978 , Cracow , 1979 . rogress in field - name studies " , Local Historian , vol . 13 , No. 38-96 . Rutland field - names : some comparisons and contrasts ” , rd ...
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13th century affix appears areas barrow Castle Celtic Celtic name chapter church common compound counties Danelaw dative denote derived from Old Devon dialectal district Domesday Book earlier early forms early spellings East Ekwall enclosure English Place-Names Ermine Street Essex etymology examples farm field-names folk-name ford fortification French glade Herefordshire hill homestead identical ingas inghams Lancashire later Latin Lincolnshire manor meaning medieval Middle English Midlands minor names modern form Norman Conquest Northamptonshire Nottingham occasionally occurs Old Danish Old English Old Norse open land origin perhaps personal name place-names plural probably refers river Roman roads Romano-British Saxons Scandinavian second element self-explanatory sense settlement shire Similarly simplex name sometimes South stone stream Street survived town tumulus tūn usually valley wapentake Watling Street West Westmorland wood Yorkshire