Ortnamn & namnregister

Navigate your way around Leeds with detailed street maps from A-Z This up-to-date, folded A-Z street map includes 4,555 streets in and around Leeds. As well as the …

De flesta har på känn att i ortnamnen finns en historia som är värd att berätta. Varför heter en by det ena eller det andra?Ortnamnen är ett källmaterial som i många fall tar oss …

This book discloses the humorous and the sometimes controversial, if not curious, circumstances surrounding the naming of more than 700 Texas towns.

First mentioned by William Langland in the late fourteenth century, Robin Hood comes down to us through ballads and folksongs, old chronicles and plays, medieval allusions, …

The Companion Encyclopedia of Geography provides an authoritative and provocative source of reference for all those concerned with the earth and its people. Examining both physical …

Originally published in 1914, this volume provides information on the historical background of place-names in Yorkshire. Entries are listed in alphabetical order and vary in …

Navigate your way around Portsmouth with this detailed and easy-to-use A-Z Street Atlas. Printed in full-colour, paperback format, this atlas contains 54 pages of …

An introduction and research guide to onomastics the study of names, this book covers the major areas of name study in individual chapters on personal names (anthroponyms), place …

This new dictionary is devoted to over 4,500 secondary place names. The entries are arranged alphabetically by secondary name and include the place's real name, its location, and …

Placenames are a constant source of debate. Who was Edwin, whose name is said to live on in that of Scotland's capital city? Are the 'drum' and 'chapel' still to be found in …