Twitter account of the English Place-Name Society. News, events, & other #placename stuff. IRL you can find us @NameStudies, @UoNEnglish. Bookshop via Linktree
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We're thrilled to announce that all our place-name dictionaries are now available to buy direct from our online store 🛒
For the place-names of Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Rutland, the Lake District, Suffolk, County Durham, and the Isle of Man, visit epns.sumupstore.com
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Speaking in 20 mins on all things berg-ish and Old Scandinavian...@IMC_Leeds @seaxeducation @NameStudies #jameschetwood @The_EPNS
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My favourite names from the 1629 #Uttoxeter Survey today are: Musterd Field, Owlers alias Owles, Amberlands, the Knights Launt, and Buddy Close! #StaffordshirePlaceNames
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Back on the #Staffordshire #PlaceNames project today! Looking at a 1629 survey of the Manor of #Uttoxeter 'Ottoxator'!
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Really interesting to see and chat with the huge variety of people using mapped data to understand the landscape. Historical time-depth awareness is vital (as well we enriching)!
@The_EPNS
@NameStudies
@esriuk
@HattieJaneGwilt
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We're at the @MedSettRG spring conference today in Nottingham, on the theme of 'Bringing Disciplines Together in Medieval Settlement Studies'. And what better way to begin the day than with place-names? Our @kilby_susan is presenting on 'Knowing your place'
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Very nice to see @EllieWry feature in a BBC News article discussing punctuation and place-names - and why one local authority is removing apostophes throughout : bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-yo…
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It's #MapMonday! How about this wonderful detail of the village from a plan of the estate at Harlsey, 1762, from the Earl of Harewood's estate collection [ZNS]
ALT A small section of a colourful estate map showing Harlsey village with named and numbered fields.
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Are you interested in Welsh place names? Do you want to help record and protect them? Well now you can!
More information here: historicplacenames.rcahmw.go…
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It is now easier to explore very detailed, large scale historic @OrdnanceSurvey mapping of Scotland in the 1950s to 1970s with new georeferenced layers of 1:1,250 and 1:2,500 scale maps in our Georeferenced Maps Viewer. maps.nls.uk/os/national-grid…
maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoo…
ALT screenshot showing georeferenced layers of 1:1250 scale Ordnance Survey mapping of Scotland, B edition
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Morning! It’s #WorldBookDay: here are my currents. I’ve always been fascinated by the geopolitics leading up to WW1 ; 1913 by @charlesemmerson is beautifully composed & written. As an @The_EPNS member I’m researching my next local history book: fulfilling one of my new life goals
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Thanks @tillermanbeads for this beautiful reproduction of a Viking age necklace discovered in a woman's grave on St Patrick's Isle, Isle of Man = lovely gift to celebrate recent confirmation of my PhD 🎉 @UoNEnglish @UoNCSVA @Midlands4Cities @ahrcpress @The_EPNS @SNSBI_official
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Bit of a milestone today - we received our 300th enquiry! If you have any questions about place names, whether you're looking for your grandparents' cottage, want to know the name of a field, or searching for the Grail (it happens), you can ask us here: historicplacenames.rcahmw.go…
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Hazel (Corylus avellana L.) catkins & miniscule! flowers in the February woodland. Used in early-medieval remedies for treating skin wounds & headaches, & as a useful material for baskets & fences, OE hæsel occurs in many place-names like le haselenehurst #Staffordshire (1290)
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#Snowdrops (Galanthus nivalis) looking down a lane in #Staffordshire where it was thought unlucky to bring them into the house (Grigson). A #neophyte plant, it doesn't occur in older #PlaceNames but can be found in house names. AKA Candlemass Bells since they flower in February!
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Favouring shade, primroses (Primula vulgaris) are blooming in hedgerows & woods. The prima rosa (first rose) of #Spring, it isn't always clear (Grigson) whether the name referred to the #primrose or #cowslip (P. veri, OE cúslyppe). As ME primerole it occurs in many place-names.
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New publication by Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics, Ellie Rye! Discover the article 'The Scandinavian element in Leicestershire minor names: a study of East Goscote north of the Wreake' in volume 54 of the Journal of the English Place-Name Society.
Eleanor Rye, 'The Scandinavian element in Leicestershire minor names: a study of East Goscote north of the Wreake'
nottingham.ac.uk/research/gr…
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In case you missed it, vol. 54 of the Journal of the English Place-Name Society was published in December.
If you're an EPNS member, you should already have your hard-copy journal. If not, you can now view the article abstracts online to see what you're missing!
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Keith Briggs, 'Slaughden: a Dutch name on the Suffolk coast?'
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Richard Coates, 'Gilkicker and Kickergill, Haslar, Gosport, Hampshire'
@UWEBristol
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