Working with place names
Use the free maps provided by maps.bing.com
On the right hand side, choose from the available list of views 'Ordnance Survey'. You don't need to 'sign in'.
You can zoom in and out of the map using the + and - signs
You can search the map by zooming in/out and dragging.
Another way to search is to enter a place name in the search box.
Enter Penrith, locate the town and locate Newton Rigg college where we are right now.
Use the table below to spot which settlers left which names around here.
You can search the map by zooming in/out and dragging.
Another way to search is to enter a place name in the search box.
Enter Penrith, locate the town and locate Newton Rigg college where we are right now.
Use the table below to spot which settlers left which names around here.
Next, using bing maps with the Ordnance Survey option selected, enter Patchway into the search box.
What do you notice about the place names around Patchway?
What do you think this tells us about the ancient settlement of the area?
Try also searching for: Driffield Penzance Your home area
Searchable map, but a work in progress - the Key to English Place Names kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/
What do you notice about the place names around Patchway?
What do you think this tells us about the ancient settlement of the area?
Try also searching for: Driffield Penzance Your home area
Searchable map, but a work in progress - the Key to English Place Names kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/
The work done in the 1920s by the Swedish academic Eilert Ekwall is still an excellent basis for detailed reasearch inot Lancashire place names, and broad guidance on basic place name elements. You can use it to build up a much better table of place name elements than the simplified one shown above. Here is the full text, a public domain document placenamesoflanc00ekwauoft.pdf