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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. Place-Names in the Landscape, her classic work, examines the key physical features that have shaped the names of places down the centuries. The themes that emerge 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, rivers and lakes - these and many other features are shown to be reflected in a myriad of familiar and unfamiliar names that in one form or another have survived centuries of history and change. Place-Names in the Landscape gives a new dimension to our knowledge of English place-names and broadens our understanding of history, language and tradition.

Author

Gelling, Margaret

Publisher

Phoenix Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9781842122648

Subjects

Travel, History, Science