The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names
The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names
$81.00
USDVictor 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.
- Comprehensive compilation with c. 20,000 entries
- Based on the 2004 scholarship
- Uses maps and illustrations to demonstrate the significance of the names
Reviews & endorsements
"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
Product details
March 2011Paperback
9780521168557
778 pages
246 × 189 × 40 mm
1.4kg
Available
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Guide to dictionary entries
- List of abbreviations
- Glossary of most frequently used elements
- Distribution maps
- References
- Places-names.
