The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names: Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society

by Victor Watts

Overview

Victor Watt's reference work comprises a completely new compilation, based on the archives of the English Place-Name Society. It reflects the most recent scholarship for all names of cities, towns, villages, hamlets, rivers, streams, hills and other geographical locations included in the Ordnance Survey Road Atlas of Great Britain (1983), with many more recent additions. The Dictionary will be of interest to geographers, historians, historical linguists and language scholars.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521362092
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	01/15/2004
Pages:	778
Product dimensions:	7.80(w) x 10.16(h) x 1.81(d)

About the Author

Victor Watts is Master of Grey College and Dean of Colleges, Durham University. He is the Honorary Director of the English Place-Name Society and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. In addition to many articles and reviews on place-names, he has written Book 17 De herbis et plantis in On the Properties of Things: John Trevisa's Translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Rerum Naturae (1975), and translated Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy (1969/1999).

Table of Contents

Preface; Guide to dictionary entries; List of abbreviations; Glossary of most frequently used elements; Distribution maps; References; Places-names.

Editorial Reviews

"Scholars will need this book...Interested amateurs will use this as a browsing book. It will have a long shelf life and be much loved by Anglophiles." E. Joan Wilson Miller, Illinois State University, H-Net

"This will undoubtedly be the definitive dictionary of its kind for decades to come." — American Reference Books Annual

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