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1. • • You’ll begin to notice some simple suffixes like ‘ton’ (farm or hamlet), ‘ham’ (village or estate), ‘ly’ or ‘ley’ (wood or a clearing), ‘stow’ (place or meeting place) and ‘bury’ (fort). These might be appended to names of local landmarks like rivers, making the meaning fairly obvious, as with the village of Isham in Northamptonshire.
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   • Key to English Place-names, the reference to the origins of place-names compilied by the Institute of Name-studies University of Nottingham. Home | About | Key to English Place-Names Type in a placename.

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   What is the origin of English Place names?

   • English place names quite often have very varied origins. The Romans, Danes, Anglo-Saxons, Norse, Normans and the Celts have all named places in England. Formerly known as the British Commonwealth, this is a voluntary association, without any charter or constitution, of states and countries that were once part of the British Empire.

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   What languages make up a place name?

   • Places nearby A note on languages Elements - the words that make up the place-name. Celtic- a family of languages, which includes the language spoken by the inhabitants of Britain before the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons in the fifth century and its later forms (Welsh, Cornish), and also Irish and Gaelic.

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   What are some great British Place names?

   • See also Cavalier Approach, Memory Lane, Quality Street and Letsby Avenue. Another Great British place name that has provided headline fodder, Tickle Cock Bridge in Castleford, West Yorkshire, was the subject of a controversial local authority decision in 2008.

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3. kepn.nottingham.ac.ukKey to English Place-names - University of Nottingham

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   You can use the Key to search for a particular place-name, or to browse through the names of a particular county. It will provide you with a name's meaning and a break-down of the different parts of the name (its 'elements') and the language(s) of those elements.

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4. www.oxfordreference.com › abstract › 10Dictionary of British Place Names - Oxford Reference

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   This revised edition of the Dictionary of British Place-Names includes over 17,000 engaging and informative entries, tracing the development of the featured place-names from earliest times to the present day. Included place-names range from the familiar to the obscure, among them 'Beer', 'Findlater', 'Broadbottom', and 'Great Snoring'.

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6. gazetteer.org.ukGazetteer of British Place Names

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   The Gazetteer of British Place Names provides an exhaustive Place Name Index to Great Britain, containing over 280,000 entries. It lists the historic county and the main administrative areas in which each place lies. The Gazetteer can be searched by entering a place name in the search box below.

7. www.english-heritage.org.uk › visit › inspire-meThe Origins of English Place Names | English Heritage

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   In this article, we’ll give you a brief history of how English places got their names and highlight the origins of some of our favourites.

8. epns.nottingham.ac.ukSurvey of English Place-Names

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   Since the 1920s, English Place-Name Society scholars have been working on a county-by-county survey of England's place-names, collecting the early forms of names from classical, medieval, and later documents and offering interpretations of their linguistic origins.

9. kepn.nottingham.ac.uk › map › placeKey to English Place-names

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   Elements - the words that make up the place-name. Celtic - a family of languages, which includes the language spoken by the inhabitants of Britain before the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons in the fifth century and its later forms (Welsh, Cornish), and also Irish and Gaelic.

10. www.placenames.org.uk › browseThe Historical Gazetteer of England's Place-names

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    Before the Second World War, the Survey was largely limited to 'major' place-names, the names of towns, villages, larger rivers, forests, etc. From the 1950s onwards rich collections of minor names, field-names and street-names have also been included.