Traces of History in the Names of Places: With a Vocabulary of the Roots Out of which Names of Places in England and Wales are FormedLongmans, Green and Company, 1872 - Всего страниц: 332 |
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... probably not far distant . Why should he not add to that knowledge the history of his own native town , of which its name is often not the least interesting part ? Perhaps a part of the time which is now spent in teaching him the ...
... probably not far distant . Why should he not add to that knowledge the history of his own native town , of which its name is often not the least interesting part ? Perhaps a part of the time which is now spent in teaching him the ...
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... probably indicating the lonely seclusion of the source of the stream . Oke and Ock , in Okeever and Ockley , are manifestly words of the same class as Ash in Ashover and Ashley ; and if the latter means ash - land and ash - ridge , it ...
... probably indicating the lonely seclusion of the source of the stream . Oke and Ock , in Okeever and Ockley , are manifestly words of the same class as Ash in Ashover and Ashley ; and if the latter means ash - land and ash - ridge , it ...
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... probably of Celtic race but it does not follow , as the Reviewer argues , that they were aborigines whom the Britons dispossessed . The historical evi- dence all tends the other way . Welsh history is full of records of invasions by ...
... probably of Celtic race but it does not follow , as the Reviewer argues , that they were aborigines whom the Britons dispossessed . The historical evi- dence all tends the other way . Welsh history is full of records of invasions by ...
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... probably mere ridges of earth , or walls of loose stone , like the ' dry stone dikes ' of Scotland , but some were more elaborately constructed . In the words stoke and stow , I think we can trace the use of stakes of wood driven into ...
... probably mere ridges of earth , or walls of loose stone , like the ' dry stone dikes ' of Scotland , but some were more elaborately constructed . In the words stoke and stow , I think we can trace the use of stakes of wood driven into ...
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... Probably Docklow ( Herefordshire ) is so named from the Rumex , and means the low or hill on which the dock grew . Thus also Sugwas , on the Wye , records the fact that the sedges ( segga ) grew in the waes or moist place beside the ...
... Probably Docklow ( Herefordshire ) is so named from the Rumex , and means the low or hill on which the dock grew . Thus also Sugwas , on the Wye , records the fact that the sedges ( segga ) grew in the waes or moist place beside the ...
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