Abbreviations
List of Counties and Unitary Authorities
England
Northern Ireland
Antrim
Armagh
Derry
Down
Fermanagh
Tyrone
Republic of Ireland
Carlow
Cavan
Clare
Cork
Donegal
Dublin
Galway
Kerry
Kildare
Kilkenny
Laois
Leitrim
Limerick
Longford
Louth
Mayo
Meath
Monaghan
Offaly
Roscommon
Sligo
Tipperary
Waterford
Westmeath
Wexford
Wicklow
Scotland
Wales
The Channel Islands and Isle of Man
Guernsey
Jersey
Isle of Man
Select Bibliography for Further Reading
Other Dictionaries and Works of Reference
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Charles, B. G., Non-Celtic Place-Names in Wales (London 1938).
Ekwall, E., The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names, 4th edition (Oxford 1960).
Field, J., English Field-Names: a Dictionary (Newton Abbot 1972, reprinted Gloucester 1989).
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Hogan, E. I., Onomasticon Goedelicum, an index, with identifications, to the Gaelic names of places and tribes (Dublin 1910).
Joyce, P. W., The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places, 3 volumes (Dublin 18691913).
Irish Local Names Explained (Dublin 1870), reprinted as A Pocket Guide (Belfast 1984).
McKay, P., A Dictionary of Ulster Place-Names (Belfast 1999).
Mills, A. D., A Dictionary of English Place-Names (Oxford 1991, 1998).
Owen, H. W., The Place Names of Wales (Cardiff 1998, 2000).
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A Dictionary of Irish Place-Names (Belfast 1994).
Smith, A. H., English Place-Name Elements, EPNS 25, 26 (Cambridge 1956).
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Watts, V. E., The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names (Cambridge 2004).
County Surveys and Monographs
Armstrong, A. M., Mawer, A., Stenton, F. M., and Dickins, B., The Place-Names of Cumberland, EPNS 202 (Cambridge 19502).
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Cameron, K., The Place-Names of Derbyshire, EPNS 279 (Cambridge 1959).
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(with contributions by Insley, J.), A Dictionary of Lincolnshire Place-Names (Nottingham 1998).
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The Ancient and Modern Names of the Channel Islands (Stamford 1991).
Coplestone-Crow, B., Herefordshire Place-Names, British Archaeological Reports, British Series 214 (Oxford 1989).
Cox, B., The Place-Names of Rutland, EPNS 67/68/69 (Nottingham 1994).
A Dictionary of Leicestershire and Rutland Place-Names (Nottingham 2005).
The Place-Names of Leicestershire, EPNS 75, 78, 81 (Nottingham 1998, 2002, 2004) (several volumes to follow).
Cox, R., The Gaelic Place-Names of Carloway, Isle of Lewis (Dublin 2002).
Cullen, Paul, The Place-Names of the Lathes of St Augustine and Shipway, Kent (unpublished DPhil. thesis, University of Sussex, 1997).
Dodgson, J. McN., The Place-Names of Cheshire, EPNS 448, 54 (Cambridge 197081), (with Rumble, A. R.), The Place-Names of Cheshire, EPNS 74 (Nottingham 1997).
Duignan, W. H., Notes on Staffordshire Place-Names (London 1902).
Ekwall, E., The Place-Names of Lancashire (Manchester 1922).
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Fraser, I. A., The Place-Names of Arran (Glasgow 1999).
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The Place-Names of Oxfordshire, EPNS 234 (Cambridge 19534).
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Glover, J., The Place-Names of Kent (London 1976).
Gover, J. E. B., Mawer, A., and Stenton, F. M., The Place-Names of Devon, EPNS 8, 9 (Cambridge 19312).
The Place-Names of Hertfordshire, EPNS 15 (Cambridge 1938).
The Place-Names of Northamptonshire, EPNS 10 (Cambridge 1933).
The Place-Names of Nottinghamshire, EPNS 17 (Cambridge 1940).
The Place-Names of Wiltshire, EPNS 16 (Cambridge 1939).
with Bonner, A.,