What's in a Name?

by C Stella Davies and John Levitt

First Published in 1970, What's in a Name is intended for the layman who feels some curiosity about local names and would like to know more about them- their history, the clues they hold to the life of the past, and the methods of discovering what they have to tell. Place-names can, as the authors of this book put it, 'help to unravel the beginnings of English history'. Books on place-names tend, in the main, to concentrate upon technical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032830530
• ISBN13: 9781032830537
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 114 Pages