Place Names
The Place-Name Shortcut: Why One Word Cannot Explain a Landscape
Learn how to read a place-name alongside local speech, older records and terrain, so you can separate useful clues…
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Place Names
Unpick what names can show about a place, and what they cannot.
Our point of view
A region makes sense in relation
A line on a map rarely tells the whole story. We look at the land, names and routes around it to see what connects places and where the boundaries matter.