English Place-Name Society: Volume 49, The Place-Names of Berkshire, Part 1

English Place-Name Society #49

by A.H. Smith (Editor)

The boundaries of this county were greatly modified in the reorganization of local government. In 1974, a substantial area of Berkshire was transferred to Oxfordshire, including Abingdon, Faringdon, East & West Hendred, Wallingford, and Wantage. Information on these places must be sought in the Berkshire volumes. Place-names of the Hundreds of Wootton, Bampton, Chadlington, Bloxham, and Banbury; glossaries, appendix on charter boundaries; 2 maps (hundreds & parishes, and geology) bound in. Among the parish names in this part are Banbury, Burford, Eynsham, Heythrop, Minster Lovell, Brize Norton, Chipping Norton, the Tews, and Witney.

306 pages, Hardcover

First published December 7, 1972

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Albert Hugh Smith, 1903-1967 (per Library of Congress).