118 Pages
by
Routledge
118 Pages
by
Routledge
118 Pages
by
Routledge
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First Published in 1970, What's in a Name is intended for the layman who feels some curiosity about local names and would like to know more about them- their history, the clues they hold to the life of the past, and the methods of discovering what they have to tell. Place-names can, as the authors of this book put it, ‘help to unravel the beginnings of English history’. Books on place-names... Read more
1. Preliminaries 2. The Earliest Known Place-names 3. The Coming of the English 4. The Spread of Settlement 5. Religion and Superstition 6. The Coming of the Vikings 7. The Normans and After 8. Curiosities 9. Place-names and the English Language Taking it Further Index of Place-names Maps
Biography
C. Stella Davies and John Levitt
