Binding: Paperback
Description: 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'. The A to Z entries are complemented by a detailed introductory essay discussing the chronology and development of English Irish Welsh and Scottish place - names as well as an extensive bibliography maps of Britain showing old and new boundaries and a glossary of common elements in place - names. Also new to this edition is an appendix of recommended web links pointing to relevant online resources thereby expanding the scope of the dictionary and providing the reader with an opportunity to explore the subject further. Both accessible and up to date this dictionary is an ideal companion for anybody travelling around the British Isles as well as for researchers and students with an interest in toponomy local history cartography and lexicography.
Title: A Dictionary Of British Place - Names
Brand: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780199609086
Pages: 576 Pages, 5 Maps
Publication Date: 11/14/2011
Series: Oxford Quick Reference
Category: Place Names & Gazetteers