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• A restoration of the ancient modes of bestowing names on the rivers, hills, vallies, plains, & settlements of Britain; recorded in no author ... (Printed for G. Dyer (Woolmer, printer;, 1805), by G. Dyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• British place-names in their historical setting. (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge ;, 1910), by Edmund McClure and Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). General Literature Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Problems of place-name study (The University press, 1929), by A. Mawer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Glossarium antiquitatum britannicarum, sive, Syllabus etymologicus antiquitatum veteris Britanniæ atque Iberniæ, temporibus Romanorum. (impensis T. Woodward [etc.], 1733), by William Baxter and Edward Lhuyd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contributions to literature : historical, antiquarian, and metrical (J.R. Smith, 1854), by Mark Antony Lower (page images at HathiTrust)
• The record interpreter: a collection of abbreviations, Latin words and names used in English historical manuscripts and records. (London, : Stevens and Sons, Limited, 1910., 1910), by Charles Trice Martin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Homes of family names in Great Britain. (Harrison and Sons, 1890), by H. B. Guppy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Watendleth (W. Heffer & Sons, Ltd., 1928), by J. Rendel Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traces of history in the names of places. With a vocabulary of the roots out of which names of places in England and Wales are formed. (Longmans, Green and co., 1872), by Flavell Edmunds (page images at HathiTrust)
• Local etymology, or, Names of places in the British Isles and in other parts of the world explained & illustrated with notices of surnames and obsolete words. (Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849), by W. A. Williamson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The record interpreter: a collection of abbreviations, Latin words and names used in English historical manuscripts and records. (Reeves and Turner, 1892), by Charles Trice Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A restoration of the ancient modes of bestowing names on the rivers, hills, vallies, plains, and settlements of Britain (Printed for G. Dyer, 1805), by G. Dyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Court-hand restored; or, The student's assistant in reading old deeds, charters, records, etc, neatly engraved on twenty-three copper-plates, describing the old law hands, with their contractions and abbreviations. With an appendix; containing the ancient names of places in Great Britain and Ireland; an alphabetical table of ancient surnames; and a glossography of Latin words found in the works of the most eminent lawyers, and other ancient writings ... (H. G. Bohn, 1846), by Andrew Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Court-hand restored; or, The student's assistant in reading old deeds, charters, records, etc. (Henry G. Bohn, 1864), by Andrew Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• An universal etymological English dictionary; : comprehending the derivations of the generality of words in the English tongue ... And also a brief and clear explication of all difficult words ... Together with a large collection and explication of words and phrases used in our ancient statutes, charters, writs ... and the etymology, and interpretation of the proper names of men, women, and remarkable places in Great-Britain ... To which is added, a collection of our most common proverbs ... (Printed for J. Buckland, J. Beecroft, W. Strahan, J. Hinton ... [and 30 others], 1773), by N. Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)
• An universal etymological English dictionary; : comprehending the derivations of the generality of words in the English tongue ... And also a brief and clear explication of all difficult words ... Together with a large collection and explication of words and phrases used in our ancient statutes, charters, writs ... and the etymology, and interpretation of the proper names of men, women, and remarkable places in Great Britain ... Also a collection of our most common proverbs ... (Printed for R. Ware, W. Innys and J. Richardson, J. Knapton ... [and 12 others], 1775), by N. Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Court-hand restored : or, The student's assistant in reading old deeds, charters, records, etc., neatly engraved on twenty-three copper plates, describing the old law hands, with their contractions and abbreviations : with an appendix containing the ancient names of places in Great Britain and Ireland, an alphabetical table of ancient surnames, and a glossography of Latin words found in the works of the most eminent lawyers and other ancient writings (Stevens, 1912), by Andrew Wright and Charles Trice Martin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Insulae Britannicae = the British Isles : their geography, history, and antiquities down to the close of the Roman period / by Arthur William Whatmore. -- (Elliot Stock, 1913), by Arthur William Whatmore (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A restoration of the ancient modes of bestowing names on the rivers, hills, vallies, plains, and settlements of Britain; recorded by no ancient, nor explored by any modern author ... (Printed for G. Dyer; [etc., etc.], 1805), by G. Dyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• United Kingdom, official standard names approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names. (Division of Geography, 1950), by United States. Office of Geography and United States Board on Geographic Names (page images at HathiTrust)
• Court-hand restored (Reeves & Turner, 1879), by Andrew Wright and Charles Trice Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Court-hand restored; or, The student's assistant, in reading old deeds, charters, records, etc. Neatly engraved on twenty-three copper-plates, describing the old law hands, with their contractions and abbreviations. With an appendix containing the ancient names of places in Great Britain and Ireland; an alphabetical table of ancient surnames; and a glossography of Latin words found in the works of the most eminent lawyers and other ancient writings, but not in any modern dictionaries ... (J. C. Hotten, 1867), by Andrew Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Court-hand restored : or, The student's assistant, in reading old deeds, charters, records, etc ... ; describing the old law hands, with their contractions and abbreviations ; with an appendix containing the ancient names of places in Great-Britain and Ireland ; an alphabetical table of ancient surnames ; and a glossography of Latin works ... (Printed for R. Bickerstaff ..., 1815), by Andrew Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• An universal etymological English dictionary; : comprehending the derivations of the generality of words in the English tongue ... And also a brief and clear explication of all difficult words ... Together with a large collection and explication of words and phrases used in our ancient statutes, charters, writs ... and the etymology, and interpretation of the proper names of men, women, and remarkable places in Great-Britain ... To which is added, a collection of our most common proverbs ... (Printed for R. Ware, W. Innys and J. Richardson, J. and P. Knapton ... [and 10 others], 1753), by N. Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The record interpreter: a collection of abbreviations (Stevens and sons, limited, 1910), by Charles Trice Martin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Court hand restored, or, The student's assistant in reading old deeds, charters, &c., with an appendix; containing, the ancient names of places in Great Britain and Ireland; an alphabetical table of ancient surnames. And also a glossary of Latin words found in the works of the most eminent lawyers, and other ancient writings, but not in any modern dictionaries ... (Printed for the author, 1786), by Andrew Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cassell's gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland : being a complete topographical dictionary of the United Kingdom. (Cassell, 1899) (page images at HathiTrust)

• An universal etymological English dictionary; : comprehending the derivations of the generality of words in the English tongue ... And also a brief and clear explication of all difficult words ... Together with a large collection and explication of words and phrases used in our ancient statutes, charters, writs ... and the etymology, and interpretation of the proper names of men, women, and remarkable places in Great Britain ... To which is added, a collection of our most common proverbs ... (Printed for J. Buckland, W. Strahan, J.F. and C. Rivington, W. Owen ... [and 26 others], 1782), by N. Bailey and Edward Harwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• An universal etymological English dictionary; : comprehending the derivations of the generality of words in the English tongue ... And also a brief and clear explication of all difficult words ... Together with a large collection and explication of words and phrases used in our ancient statutes, charters, writs ... and the etymology, and interpretation of the proper names of men, women, and remarkable places in Great Britain ... Also a collection of our most common proverbs ... (Printed for R. Ware, W. Innys and J. Richardson, J. and P. Knapton, T. and T. Longman ... [and 12 others], 1770), by N. Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dictionarium Britannicum, or, A More Compleat Universal Etymological English Dictionary Than Any Extant (London: Printed for T. Cox, 1730), ed. by N. Bailey, contrib. by George Gordon and Philip Miller (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annual Report. (London., 1924), by English Place-Name Society (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Untersuchungen zum zweiten teil der englischen ortsnamen ... (Westfälische vereinsdruckerei, 1926), by Johannes Bielefeld (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The place-names of Berkshire (The Clarendon press, 1911), by Walter W. Skeat (page images at HathiTrust)
• Altenglisches flurnamenbuch (M. Niemeyer, 1902), by Heinrich Middendorff (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The place-names of England and Wales (J. Murray, 1915), by James B. Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Treatise on the local nomenclature of the Anglo-Saxons, as exhibited in the "Codex diplomaticus ævi saxonici" (E. Lumley, 1852), by Heinrich Leo and B Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• English place-names in -ing (C. W. K. Gleerup; [etc., etc.], 1923), by Eilert Ekwall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Place-names and history; Robert Spence Watson memorial lecture delivered before the Literary and philosophical society, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, September 25, 1922 (The Unviersity press of Liverpool ltd.; [etc., etc.], 1922), by A. Mawer and English Place-Name Society (Series) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Survey of English place names (The University Press, 1924), by English Place-Name Society (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Introduction to the survey of English place-names ... (Cambridge [Eng.] : The University press, 1924., 1924), by A. Mawer and F. M. Stenton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Middle-English place-names of Scandinavian origin (University press, 1912), by Harald Lindkvist (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Scandinavians and Celts in the north-west of England (C.W.K. Gleerup; [etc.,etc., 1918), by Eilert Ekwall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Zur Lautlehre der altenglischen Ortsnamen im Domesday book. (Mayer & Müller, 1902), by Max Stolze (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• [Survey of English place-names] ... (The University press, 1924), by English Place-Name Society (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• English place-name study; its present condition and future possibilities (Pub. for the British academy by H. Milford, Oxford university press, 1921), by A. Mawer and London British Academy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zur Lautlehre der altenglischen Ortsnamen im Domesday Book (M. Stolze, 1902), by Max Stolze (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• English river-names (Clarendon Press, 1928), by Eilert Ekwall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Varieties of literature; being, principally, selections from the portfolio of the late John Brady, esq. ... (G. B. Whittaker, 1826), by John Brady and John Henry Brady (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die englische palatalisierung von K > Č im lichte der englischen ortsnamen (Druck von E. Karras G.M.B.H. in Halle (Saale), 1917), by Olga Gevenich (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Middle-English place-names of Scandinavian origin ... Part I. (University Press, 1912), by Harald Lindkvist (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Northmen in Cumberland & Westmoreland. (Longman, 1856), by Robert Ferguson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes on the systematic study of our English place-names (Harrison & Sons, printers], 1900), by John Horace Round (page images at HathiTrust)
• The place-names of England and Wales (E.P. Dutton and Co., 1916), by James Brown Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rectitudines singularum personarum; nebst einer einleitend Abhandlung über Landansidlung, Landbau, gutscherliche und bäuerliche Verhaltnisse der Angelsachsen. (E. Anton, 1842), by Heinrich Leo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Local nomenclature. A lecture on the names of places, chiefly in the west of England, etymologically and historically considered. (Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857), by George Philip Rigney Pulman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Northmen in Cumberland & Westmoreland. (Longman, 1856), by Robert Ferguson and Fiske Icelandic Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manley's interpreter. (Printed by J. Streater for H. Twyford, 1672), by John Cowell and Thomas Manley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The place-names of England and Wales (J. Murray, 1914), by James Brown Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)
• A contribution to the study of Anglo-Norman influence on English place-names (Printed by Håkan Ohlsson, 1909), by R. E. Zachrisson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An unpublished manuscript list of some early territorial names in England. (British Archaeological Association, 1884), by Walter de Gray Birch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some instances of Latin influence on English place-nomenclature. (Printed by H. Ohlsson, 1910), by R. E. Zachrisson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Etymology of Local Names: With a short introduction to the relationship of languages. Teutonic names., by Richard Morris (Gutenberg ebook)
• A commentary on Antoninus, his Itinerary, or, Journies of the Romane Empire, so far as it concerneth Britain wherein the first foundation of our cities, lawes, and government, according to the Roman policy, are clearly discovered ... / by VVilliam Burton ... ; with a chorographicall map of the severall stations, and index's to the whole work. (London : Printed by Tho. Roycroft, and are to be sold by Henry Twyford ... and T. Twyford ..., 1658), by William Burton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A direction for the English traviller by which he shall be inabled to coast about all England and Wales and also to know how farre any market or noteable towne in any shire lyeth one from an other, and whether the same be east, west, north, or south from ye shire towne, and also the distance betweene London and any other shire or great towne, with the scituation thereof east,west, north, or south from London : by the help also of this worke, one may know (in what parish, village, or mansion house soever he be in), what shire he is to passe through ... ([London] : Are to be sold by Thomas Jenner ..., 1643) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Book of the names of all parishes, market towns, villages, hamlets, and smallest places, in England and Wales alphabetically set down, as they be in every shire ..., so that naming any town or place in England and Wales, you may presently in the alphabet find it, and know in what shire and hundred it is, and so know the distance from it to the shire town, and in the large table for shires in England how far to London, or from it to any other town in England ... (London : Printed by M.S. for Tho: Jenner ..., 1657) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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