The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names by Victor Wat... - 9780521362092

The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-NamesBased on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society\nAuthor(s): Victor Watts, John Insley, Margaret Gelling\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521362092, 978-0521362092\nSynopsis\nOriginally published in 2004, this alphabetical dictionary is a major reference work, based on the archives of the English Place-Name Society and reflecting the scholarship in the subject, of all the names of cities, towns, villages, hamlets, rivers, streams, hills and other geographical locations included in the Ordnance Survey Road Atlas of Great Britain [tel]. It provides a reflection of contemporary England, not just its historical past. Every place-name entry has a unique National Grid reference number, a list of historical spellings, the age and meaning of the name and its etymology (pre-Indo-European, Indo-European, Celtic, Primitive Welsh, Anglo-Saxon, Old No.