Margaret Gelling
Place-names in the Landscape: The Geographical Roots of Britain's Place-names
At the forefront of place-name studies, Margaret Gelling makes major advances in our understanding of the derivation of English place-names and of their roots in history and landscape.
This text examines the key physical features that have shaped the names of places in Britain down the centuries. The themes that emerge in the book show the rich heritage of English place-names and the elements of which they are composed: hills and valleys, trees and forests, roads and tracks, marshes and moors, ploughland and pasture, and rivers and lakes. These and many other features are shown to be reflected in a myriad of both familiar and unfamiliar names that, in one way or another, have survived centuries of history and change.
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