English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

  1. Hurstingstone Hundred (Hundred in Huntingdonshire)

    The history of this Hundred-name has been made out by Mr Goodall in the paper already referred to s. n. Sword Point supra 190. He makes a convincing case for thinking that

  2. Charlton Abbots (Parish in Gloucestershire)

  3. Charlton Kings (Parish in Gloucestershire)

  4. Charlton Park (Other OS name, Charlton Kings, Gloucestershire)

    , 1830 M , v. park

  5. New England (Other OS name, Ollerton, Nottinghamshire)

    is so named c. 1825 (O.S.)

  6. New England (Other OS name, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire)

    is in the far north - west of the parish . v. infra 293