English Placenames

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Sources:

Academy of St. Gabriel "Medieval Names Archive" - http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/
Archive of St. Gabriel reports - http://www.panix.com/~gabriel/public-bin/archive.cgi
Database of medieval names (from the Medieval Names Archive) - http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/database/

Laurel Name Articles - http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/
IGI Searches, batches beginning with C, J, K, M (except M17 and M18), or P are acceptable - http://familysearch.org/

Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary - http://www.bosworthtoller.com/node/62883 - Some towns are listed for locative bynames.

British History On-line, searchable primary sources - http://www.british-history.ac.uk/Default.aspx

Compound Placenames in Old English - by Juliana de Luna (Julia Smith)

Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Placenames.

Survey of English place-names by - https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.32000002279588&view=1up&seq=9

Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, by Watts

_A Dictionary of British Place-Names_, by Mills. Index by Gunnvor, the Viking Answer Lady - http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/Dictionary_of_English_Place_Names.htm

The Digitization of England's Placenames - http://englishplacenames.cerch.kcl.ac.uk/

English Place Names (esp. Norfolk and Suffolk) - http://www.englishplacenames.co.uk/

Handbood of English Placename Construction, by Sara Uckelman - http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/english/handbook.pdf

Historic Cities: British Isles - http://historic-cities.huji.ac.il/british_isles/british_isles.html

Historic Gazetteer of England's Place-Names - http:placenames.org.uk/

Old English Translator - http://www.oldenglishtranslator.co.uk/ - translate Modern English words to Old English, including locations. For example entering "Evesham" into the search box will result in entries for the Old English spellings of "Eofesham" and "Euesham."

Open Domesday (map): http://www.domesdaymap.co.uk/ The place names are normalized, but each one will take you to an image of the place(s) in the manuscript where it appears.

A Survey of the History of English Placenames - http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/engplnam.html?referer=www.clickfind.com.au

Place-names in the Danelaw - http://viking.no/e/england/danelaw/epl-danelaw.htm

List of generic forms in place names in the United Kingdom and Ireland - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_forms_in_place_names_in_the_United_Kingdom_and_Ireland

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Precedents:

Precedents of the SCA College of Arms - [[1]] Morsulus Heralds Website - [[2]] (to search the LoARs and Precedents) Restatement Wiki - [[3]] (restatements of Precedents)

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