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. New England (Other OS name, Derby Hills, Derbyshire)

    ( 6 ″ ) , 1771EnclA , v. infra 759