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An expanded version of the best-selling Dictionary of English Place-Names, this dictionary now also covers Scottish, Welsh, and Irish place-names. From Abbas Combe to Zennor it gives the meaning and origin of over 15,000 British place-names.

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List of Counties and Unitary Authorities England - photo 1

List of Counties and Unitary Authorities England - photo 2

List of Counties and Unitary Authorities

England

A Dictionary of British Place-Names - photo 3

Northern Ireland Antrim Armagh Derry - photo 4

Northern Ireland Antrim Armagh Derry Down Fermanagh Tyrone Republic of - photo 5

Northern Ireland Antrim Armagh Derry Down Fermanagh Tyrone Republic of - photo 6

Northern Ireland Antrim Armagh Derry Down Fermanagh Tyrone Republic of - photo 7

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 Sel - photo 8

Wales The Channel Islands and Isle of Man Guernsey Jersey Isle of Man - photo 9

Wales

The Channel Islands and Isle of Man Guernsey Jersey Isle of Man Select - photo 10

The Channel Islands and Isle of Man

Guernsey
Jersey
Isle of Man

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Other Dictionaries and Works of Reference

Census of Ireland 1851, general alphabetical index to the townlands and towns, parishes and baronies of Ireland (Dublin 1861, reprinted Baltimore 1984).

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).

Forster, K., A Pronouncing Dictionary of English Place-Names (London 1981).

Gelling, M., Nicolaisen, W. F. H., and Richards, M., The Names of Towns and Cities in Britain (London 1970, revised reprint 1986).

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).

Padel, O. J., Cornish Place-Name Elements, EPNS 56/57 (Cambridge 1985).

Parsons, D. and Styles, T. with Hough, C., The Vocabulary of English Place-Names (A-Box), (Brace-Cster), (Ceafor-Cockpit) (Nottingham 1997, 2000, 2004).

Pointon, G. E. (ed.), BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names, 2nd edition (Oxford 1983).

Room, A., A Concise Dictionary of Modern Place-Names in Great Britain and Ireland (Oxford 1983).

A Dictionary of Irish Place-Names (Belfast 1994).

Smith, A. H., English Place-Name Elements, EPNS 25, 26 (Cambridge 1956).

Spittal, J. and Field, J., A Readers Guide to the Place-Names of the United Kingdom (Stamford 1990).

tSuirbhireacht Ordanis, An [The Ordnance Survey of Ireland] Gasaitar na hireann/Gazetteer of Ireland (Dublin 1989); Liosta Logainmneacha/Lists of Irish forms of names: Counties Limerick, Louth, Waterford (Dublin 1991), County Kilkenny (Dublin 1993), Offaly (Dublin 1994), County Monaghan (Dublin 1996).

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).

Broderick, G., Placenames of the Isle of Man, volumes 16 (Tubingen 19942002).

Cameron, K., The Place-Names of Derbyshire, EPNS 279 (Cambridge 1959).

The Place-Names of Lincolnshire, EPNS 58, 64/65, 66, 71 (Nottingham 1985, 1991, 1992, 1996), (with Field. J. and Insley, J.), EPNS 73, 77 (Nottingham 1997, 2001) (several volumes to follow).

(with contributions by Insley, J.), A Dictionary of Lincolnshire Place-Names (Nottingham 1998).

Charles, B. G., The Place-Names of Pembrokeshire, volumes I and II (Aberystwyth 1992).

Coates, R., The Place-Names of Hampshire (London 1989).

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).

Fgersten, A., The Place-Names of Dorset (Uppsala 1933).

Field, J., Place-Names of Greater London (London 1980).

Fraser, I. A., The Place-Names of Arran (Glasgow 1999).

Gelling, M., The Place-Names of Berkshire, EPNS 4951 (Cambridge 19736).

The Place-Names of Oxfordshire, EPNS 234 (Cambridge 19534).

with Foxall, H. D. G., The Place-Names of Shropshire, EPNS 62/3, 70, 76, 80 (Nottingham 1990, 1995, 2001, 2004) (several volumes to follow).

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.,

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