South Devon Place Names

South Devon Place Names
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Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages : 238
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ISBN-10 : 9781445630984
ISBN-13 : 1445630982
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis South Devon Place Names by : Anthony Poulton-Smith

South Devon Place Names provides an interesting insight into some of the county's more unusual place names.

Somerset Place Names

Somerset Place Names
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Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages : 255
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ISBN-10 : 9781445630939
ISBN-13 : 1445630931
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis Somerset Place Names by : Anthony Poulton-Smith

Somerset Place Names provides an interesting insight into some of the county's more unusual place names.

Early Christianity in South-West Britain

Early Christianity in South-West Britain
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Publisher : Oxbow Books
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9781911188582
ISBN-13 : 1911188585
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Early Christianity in South-West Britain by : Elizabeth Rees

This book offers a new assessment of early Christianity in south-west Britain from the fourth to the tenth centuries, a rich period which includes the transition from Roman to native British to Saxon models of church. The book will be based on evidence from archaeological excavations, early texts and recent critical scholarship and cover Wessex, Devon and Cornwall. In the south-west, Wessex provides the greatest evidence of Roman Christianity. The fifth-century Dorset villas of Frampton and Hinton St Mary, with their complex baptistery mosaics, indicate the presence of sophisticated Christian house churches. The fact that these two Roman villas are only 15 miles apart suggests a network of small Christian communities in this region. The author uses evidence from St Patrick’s fifth-century ‘Confessions’ to describe how members of a villa house church lived. Wessex was slowly Christianised: in Gloucestershire, the pagan healing sanctuary at Chedworth provides evidence of later use as a Christian baptistery; at Bradford on Avon in Wiltshire, a baptistery was dug into the mosaic floor of an imposing villa, which may by then have been owned by a bishop. In Somerset a number of recently excavated sites demonstrate the transition from a pagan temple to a Christian church. Beside the pagan temple at Lamyatt, later female burials suggest, unusually, a small monastic group of women. Wells cathedral grew beside the site of a Roman villa’s funeral chapel. In Street, a large oval enclosure indicates the probable site of a ‘Celtic’ monastery. Early Christian cemeteries have been excavated at Shepton Mallet and elsewhere. Lundy Island, off the Devon coast, provides evidence of a Celtic monastery, with its inscribed stones that commemorate early monks. At Exeter, a Saxon anthology includes numerous riddles, one of which describes in detail the production of an illuminated manuscript in a south-western monastery. Oliver Padel’s meticulous documentation of Cornish place-names has demonstrated that, of all the Celtic regions, Cornwall has by far the highest number of dedications to a single, otherwise unknown individual, typically consisting of a small church and a farm by the sea. These small monastic ‘cells’ have hitherto received little attention as a model of church in early British Christianity, and the latter part of the text focuses on various aspects of this model, as lived out in coastal and in upland settlements, on islands, and in relation to larger Breton monasteries. Study of 60 Breton sites has demonstrated possible connections between larger Breton monasteries and smaller Cornish cells.

Place-names of South-west Yorkshire

Place-names of South-west Yorkshire
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 332
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ISBN-10 : PRNC:32101072897703
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis Place-names of South-west Yorkshire by : Armitage Goodall

The South West to 1000 AD

The South West to 1000 AD
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 355
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ISBN-10 : 9781317871644
ISBN-13 : 1317871642
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis The South West to 1000 AD by : Malcolm Todd

A unique and detailed history of the south-west of England written in a clear and accessible style. A wondeful resource for any local historian.

The Historic Landscape of Devon

The Historic Landscape of Devon
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Publisher : Windgather Press
Total Pages : 280
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ISBN-10 : 9781905119967
ISBN-13 : 1905119968
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis The Historic Landscape of Devon by : Lucy Ryder

The 19th century historic landscape of Devon developed from earlier patterns of landholdings and settlement that are, today, not always easily discernible on the ground. The study of Tithe Survey landholdings, field-names, and associated documentary evidence, together with the physical evidence of change and development through field and settlement pattern can be used to elucidate the relationship between field and settlement morphologies and patterns of 19th-century landholding. The combined evidence for three case-study areas – the Blackdown Hills, Hartland Moors, and the South Hams – is examined in detail though the creation, manipulation, and querying of a Geographical Information Systems (GIS) database. Key issues addressed include: how far back patterns of 19th century landholding can be traced, or projected, back into the medieval period; the occurrence and extent of open field farming in Devon; and the spread of nucleated and dispersed settlements. Looking beyond the physical aspects of landscapes, the idea of landscape pays and the identification of regional differences in the study of the historic landscape are investigating revealing how closely entwined are the physical and social landscapes of this historic county.

The Place-names of England and Wales

The Place-names of England and Wales
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Publisher : London J. Murray 1915.
Total Pages : 550
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015049805677
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis The Place-names of England and Wales by : James Brown Johnston

Contains a brief history of names of geographical locations using Roman and Latin names in England and Wales, the Keltic element and how it influenced the naming of places in England and Wales, the English, Scandinavian and Norman elements, phonetic notes in the alphabet and its mutations in English place names, list of the chief place names in England and Wales with explanations.

A Dictionary of British Place-Names

A Dictionary of British Place-Names
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 574
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ISBN-10 : 9780199609086
ISBN-13 : 019960908X
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis A Dictionary of British Place-Names by : David Mills

From Abbas Combe to Zennor, this dictionary gives the meaning and origin of place names in the British Isles, tracing their development from earliest times to the present day.