A Key to English Place-Names
| A Key to English Place-Names is a database maintained at the Institute for Name-Studies, School of English, The University of Nottingham.
It is intended to provide an up-to-date guide to the interpretation of the names of England's cities, towns and villages, drawing on the work of the English Place-Name Society (itself housed within the institute) and other researchers. Readers are encouraged (by a 'Your Comments' box beside each name) to offer comments on the appropriateness of otherwise of the etymologies (e.g. 'there's no hill for miles around'), and to inform us of significant additions to the bibliography (it is particularly hard for us to keep track of contributions in local and historical and archaeological journals). Note that, in common with most historically-based research, we use the county-boundaries that stood before local government reorganization in 1974 | 
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| Browse by county for place-names, using the clickable map or County Index
Or use the search tool for specific place-names, or parts of names. |
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| The site uses a number of abbreviations, for which there is a glossary | ||
| Site programming by IS Academic and Research Applications Team using UMN MapServer and ka-map mapping software. | ||