Place-names in the Landscape

At the forefront of place-name studies, Margaret Gelling makes major advances in our understanding of the derivation of English place-names and of their roots in history and landscape.

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The definitive study of British place-names by which Margeret Gelling rediscovers a past missing from the history books: invasions, the movements of whole peoples, the changing uses of land: ever place tells its own story.