"Hans Nørgaard" <jersey@post4.tele.dk> wrote in message news:3EBE6652.FE72515@post4.tele.dk...
> Som særlig interesseret i landbrug kender jeg selvfølgelig også Reading
> University, men mine tal bygger på sites om vikingerne.
-thorpe also exists
are oldest names are pre Roman invasion
like Afn of Avon meaning river or water
Typical roman names ending in Castra a camp
becoming Chester or in Wales Caer as in Caerleon which was a provincial centre with an amphitheatre not unlike the small one in
the GLADIATOR film
Cardiff usd to be spelled Caerdiff bt the way
http://www.qub.ac.uk/lla/cel/placenameproject.htm
see
http://www.flet.keio.ac.jp/~mesn/mesn_scan/MESN26a-june1992.pdf
>>
Especially noteworthy was
John Dodgson's work on the various types of -ing(-) formation (e .g .,
names such as Reading, Clavering, Deeping, Lockinge, Hastings,
Birmingham, Teddington, Wallingford, Basingstoke, and so on) : his
contribution to a general re-valuation, carried out by several
scholars during the 1960s and '70s, of the chronological implications
of certain name-types (a re-valution which has rendered obsolete many
of the supposedly chronologically-stratified maps accompanying some of
the earlier surveys published) . Margaret Gelling, in addition to
being one of the Society's most productive editors (responsible for
the completed surveys of Oxfordshire and of Berkshire and currently
engaged upon that of Shropshire) and a commentator of great insight,
has distilled her experience into two syntheses aimed at the general
reader, Signposts to the Past (1978) and Place-Names in the Landscape
(1984) ; she is also tireless in lecturing to conferences and summerschools
.. Another work of 'popularization' in the highest sense is
Oliver Padel's A Popular Dictionary of Cornish Place-Names (1988) .
Special mention of these particular scholars must not, of course, be
taken to imply any deficiency among the rest of the Society's
editors ; rather is the work mentioned representative of the ways in
which the Society has encouraged both fundamental research and the
diffusion of findings from it among the wider educated public .
Since 1969 the Society has been publishing its own annual
Journal, currently edited by John Field, himself a leading microtoponymist
; this carries articles of toponymic interest in the widest
sense : analyses of specific forms and types, reports on onomastic
surveys of particular areas, guidance as to archival resources,
discussions of methodology, and so on . Similar materials also appear
in the independent journal Nomina, as well as in ones published by
local-history societies and in conference proceedings .<<
enjoy
Hugh W
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