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<p>England's diverse and often odd-sounding place-names speak of thousands of years of history, reflecting conquest and migration, topography, local trades and agriculture, and changing customs. With over 12,000 informative entries, <b>The Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names</b> offers a unique path into this rich past of the English landscape, as read in local names.<br> Time and time again, the British Isles have been overrun by invading nations-the Romans, Saxons, Vikings, and Normans, to name a few-each leaving their language and locations etched into the countryside. The traces of these successive tongues can be heard in such places as <b>Humber</b> (pre-Celtic), <b>York</b> (Celtic), <b>Lincoln</b> (Latin), <b>Scunthorpe</b> (Scandanavian), <b>Basingstoke</b> (Old English), <b>Devizes</b> (French), and <b>Broadstairs</b> (Middle English). <b>Chester</b>, for example, began as a Roman military base, and originated as a latin word for a camp. Mills reveals how local names reflect such elements as the size of a place (as in <b>Much Wenlock</b>), its location (<b>High Barnet</b>), a local product (<b>Saffron Walden</b>), the tribe that settled there (<b>Essex</b>), natural f

Author

Mills, A. D. (Anthony David), 1935-

Publisher

Oxford [England] ; New York: Oxford University Press

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9780198691563

Subjects

Travel, History, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-24