Originally published in 2004 this alphabetical dictionary is a major reference work based on the archives of the English Place-Name Society and reflecting the scholarship in the subject of all the names of cities towns villages hamlets rivers streams hills and other geographical locations included in the Ordnance Survey Road Atlas of Great Britain (1983). It provides a reflection of contemporary England not just its historical past. Every place-name entry has a unique National Grid reference number a list of historical spellings the age and meaning of the name and its etymology (pre-Indo-European Indo-European Celtic Primitive Welsh Anglo-Saxon Old Norse Old French Middle English Modern English). Where appropriate a commentary is provided on comparable names on the problems history and significance of the name for settlement economic and social history the development of the language and on its variant pronunciations and spellings. Language: English