A Key to English Place-Names
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Grant Holder:
Professor Thorlac Turville-Petre
"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" (from project web site; please see for more details).
PHP
| Project start date: 2003-11 | Project end date: 2005-03 |
Subject domains:
Country/region(s):
| Methods used | Category |
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| General website development | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Manual input and transcription | Data capture |
Funding sources:
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Content types created:
Dataset/structured data
Software tools used:
PHP, Esri ArcIMS internet map server
Digital resource created:
Database of English place names
Access to digital resource:
Open Access
Institutions affiliated with this project:
| UK HE institutions involved: |
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| University of Nottingham |
| UK HE institutions involved: |
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| Institute for Name-Studies |
Project staff and expertise:
| Principal staff member: | Professor Thorlac Turville-Petre |
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| Other staff: | Postdoctoral researcher(s) / Research assistant(s) |
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| Author(s) of record | Jayne Carroll |
| Title | A Key to English Place-Names |
| Record created | 2007-10-31 |
| Record updated | 2011-01-25 16:40 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2220 |
| Citation of record | Jayne Carroll: A Key to English Place-Names. <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2220> created: 2007-10-31, last updated 2011-01-25 16:40 |