English Place-Name Society

We're thrilled to announce that all our place-name dictionaries are now available to buy direct from our online store 🛒 For the place-names of Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Rutland, the Lake District, Suffolk, County Durham, and the Isle of Man, visit epns.sumupstore.com

Speaking in 20 mins on all things berg-ish and Old Scandinavian...@IMC_Leeds @seaxeducation @NameStudies #jameschetwood @The_EPNS

My favourite names from the 1629 #Uttoxeter Survey today are: Musterd Field, Owlers alias Owles, Amberlands, the Knights Launt, and Buddy Close! #StaffordshirePlaceNames

Back on the #Staffordshire #PlaceNames project today! Looking at a 1629 survey of the Manor of #Uttoxeter 'Ottoxator'!

Really interesting to see and chat with the huge variety of people using mapped data to understand the landscape. Historical time-depth awareness is vital (as well we enriching)! @The_EPNS @NameStudies @esriuk @HattieJaneGwilt

We're at the @MedSettRG spring conference today in Nottingham, on the theme of 'Bringing Disciplines Together in Medieval Settlement Studies'. And what better way to begin the day than with place-names? Our @kilby_susan is presenting on 'Knowing your place'

Very nice to see @EllieWry feature in a BBC News article discussing punctuation and place-names - and why one local authority is removing apostophes throughout : bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

And what does it mean? That is the question!

It's #MapMonday! How about this wonderful detail of the village from a plan of the estate at Harlsey, 1762, from the Earl of Harewood's estate collection [ZNS]

Are you interested in Welsh place names? Do you want to help record and protect them? Well now you can! More information here: historicplacenames.rcahmw.gov.uk/blog/now-you-c…

It is now easier to explore very detailed, large scale historic @OrdnanceSurvey mapping of Scotland in the 1950s to 1970s with new georeferenced layers of 1:1,250 and 1:2,500 scale maps in our Georeferenced Maps Viewer. maps.nls.uk/os/national-gr… #zoom=10.0&lat=55.93748&lon=-3.91623&layers=261&b=1&o=100" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#z…

@THERussellGrant @PointlessBoyco1 @charlesemmerson We should have "Splendidly eccentric" as our new motto... Thanks for that! 😀

@PointlessBoyco1 @charlesemmerson @The_EPNS University of Nottingham - excellent organisation covering all the historic (proper) counties.

Morning! It’s #WorldBookDay: here are my currents. I’ve always been fascinated by the geopolitics leading up to WW1 ; 1913 by @charlesemmerson is beautifully composed & written. As an @The_EPNS member I’m researching my next local history book: fulfilling one of my new life goals

Thanks @tillermanbeads for this beautiful reproduction of a Viking age necklace discovered in a woman's grave on St Patrick's Isle, Isle of Man = lovely gift to celebrate recent confirmation of my PhD 🎉 @UoNEnglish @UoNCSVA @Midlands4Cities @ahrcpress @The_EPNS @SNSBI_official

Bit of a milestone today - we received our 300th enquiry! If you have any questions about place names, whether you're looking for your grandparents' cottage, want to know the name of a field, or searching for the Grail (it happens), you can ask us here: historicplacenames.rcahmw.gov.uk/contact

@bookwormbilly Hi Charlie, the EPNS survey of Lancashire is underway, but the online search reflects survey volumes published up to 2013. Work is ongoing on ways to make unpublished material accessible online, but that's not possible as yet. Was there anything in particular you were after?

@The_EPNS Is there a timeframe for adding anything in Lancashire to the online search and browse?

Hazel (Corylus avellana L.) catkins & miniscule! flowers in the February woodland. Used in early-medieval remedies for treating skin wounds & headaches, & as a useful material for baskets & fences, OE hæsel occurs in many place-names like le haselenehurst #Staffordshire (1290)

#Snowdrops (Galanthus nivalis) looking down a lane in #Staffordshire where it was thought unlucky to bring them into the house (Grigson). A #neophyte plant, it doesn't occur in older #PlaceNames but can be found in house names. AKA Candlemass Bells since they flower in February!

Favouring shade, primroses (Primula vulgaris) are blooming in hedgerows & woods. The prima rosa (first rose) of #Spring, it isn't always clear (Grigson) whether the name referred to the #primrose or #cowslip (P. veri, OE cúslyppe). As ME primerole it occurs in many place-names.