Margaret Gelling and Ann Cole

About the book

This important book is a study of the type of settlement-name which defines the settlement by reference to a landscape feature, as found in Britain south of the Forth-Clyde line.

It covers a large range of place-name elements, most of them English, but some in Welsh, Gaelic and Norse.

At every point in this exhaustive study, the authors are concerned to elucidate the precise meanings of the names, and their importance as evidence for early activities such as farming, the undiscovered archaeological sites possibly associated with them and ancient routes.

The book is a major rewrite of Margaret Gelling's previous best-selling work, Place-names in the Landscape, here substantially increased in size and illustrated with explanatory diagrams and maps by Ann Cole.

It is issued with a full index and an introduction which places the material in its historical context. The book is a substantial 416 pages long with 70 illustrations.

About the authors

Margaret Gelling

Margaret Gelling's works are a major reference source for those involved in the identification of previously unknown sites of archaeological interest through the study of place-names.

She is the author of a great many articles and several books on English place-name studies, for which she received the OBE in 1995. She became a senior fellow of the British Academy in 1998.

Ann Cole

Ann Cole is a geographer who has also written and lectured widely on the relationship between place-names and geographical features.

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