An exploration of the landscape of Anglo-Saxon England, particularly through the prism of place-names and what they can reveal.

Since this work on English place-names was first published in 1961, a great deal of research has been undertaken, and material has been published which is of im

The Anglo-Saxon period was crucial to the development of the English landscape, but is rarely studied. The essays here provide radical new interpretations of it

In this significant study,Jill Bourne presents the corpus of all 70 surviving Kingston place-names, fromDevon to Northumberland, and investigates each one withi

From Abbas Combe to Zennor, this dictionary gives the meaning and origin of place names in the British Isles, tracing their development from earliest times to t