Maps of English place-name element distribution

© 2005, 2009 Keith Briggs. Last modified 2009-04-21 11:24

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 280kb	-borough,burgh,bury 268kb	-bourn,bourne,burn 352kb	-bridge 268kb	-by,bie 268kb
-chester,cester,caster 248kb	-cott,cote,cot 272kb	-don 264kb	-field 292kb	-ford 276kb
-gate 268kb	-hall,hale 368kb	-ham 280kb	-hanger 248kb	-hay,haw,haugh 264kb
-head 308kb	-heath,hythe 268kb	-hoo,hoe 252kb	-ing,ings 280kb	-ington,ingham 272kb
-ley,leigh 300kb	-minster 248kb	-ness 264kb	-or 344kb	-stead 252kb
-stead,sted 252kb	-sted 248kb	-stock 248kb	-ston,stone 304kb	-stowe 248kb
-thorpe 256kb	-thwaite 252kb	-ton 432kb	-tree,try 252kb	-wall 252kb
-well 268kb	-wich 248kb	-wick 264kb	-worth,worthy 260kb