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Victor
Watts.
The Cambridge
Dictionary of English Place-Names.
Cambridge University Press, Jan 15th, 2004.
778pp with 16 figures, 12 maps.
Hardback.
ISBN 0521362091.
Publisher's
recommended introductory price £175.00 - will rise to ca.
£200.00.
This alphabetical
dictionary is a totally new compilation, based on the archives of the
English Place-Name Society and reflecting the most recent 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 (1983) plus many more. 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 Norse, Old French, Middle English, Modern English).
Where appropriate, a commentary is provided on comparable names, on the
problems, history and significance of the name for settlement, economic
and social history, the development of the language and on its variant
pronunciations and spellings.
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