Maps of English place-name element distribution

© 2005 Keith Briggs. Last modified 2006 May 15 (Monday) 09:39

I created these maps to complement those on pages li-lxii in The Cambridge dictionary of English place-names, by Victor Watts (CUP 2004).

Caveat subtractor! These maps necessarily oversimplify a complex situation:

• Only the modern form of a name is used. Some tons are really stones, some fords are really worths, and so on.
  Please consult a reliable reference book before drawing any conclusions.
• Due to limitations of my software, only suffixes are considered. Bury St. Edmunds does not count as a -bury.
• There are outright errors.

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-back,beck,beach 248kb	-borough,burgh,bury 260kb	-bourn,bourne,burn 252kb	-bridge 252kb	-by 260kb
-chester,cester,caster 248kb	-comb,combe 252kb	-cott,cote,cot 252kb	-don 256kb	-field 256kb
-ford 260kb	-gate 248kb	-hall,hale 252kb	-ham 272kb	-hanger 248kb
-head 248kb	-heath 248kb	-ing,ings 256kb	-ington,ingham 268kb	-ley,leigh 272kb
-minster 248kb	-ness 248kb	-stock 248kb	-ston,stone 268kb	-stowe 248kb
-thorpe 252kb	-thwaite 248kb	-ton 336kb	-tree,try 248kb	-wall 248kb
-well 252kb	-wich 248kb	-wick 252kb	-worth,worthy 256kb

This page was automatically generated by make-maps-webpage-txt.py written by Keith Briggs.
Last modified 2006 May 15 (Monday) 09:39