Place-Names



The spelling of place- names in Anglo- Saxon England was an uncertain business, with no consistency and no agreement even about the name itself. Thus London was variously rendered as Lundonia, Lundenberg, Lundenne, Lundene, Lundenwic, Lundenceaster, and Lundres. Doubtless some readers will prefer other versions of the names listed below, but I have usually employed whatever spelling is cited in theOxford Dictionary of English Place- Names for the years nearest or contained within Alfred’s reign,A . D. 871–899, but even that solution is not foolproof. Hayling Island, in 956, was written as both Heilincigae and Hæglingaiggæ. Nor have I been consistent myself; I have preferred the modern England to Englaland and, instead of Nor hymbralond, have used Northumbria to avoid the suggestion that the boundaries of the ancient kingdom coincide with those of the modern county. So this list, like the spellings themselves, is capricious.

Æbbanduna

Abingdon, Berkshire

Æsc’s Hill

Ashdown, Berkshire

Baðum (pronounced Bathum)

Bath, Avon

Basengas

Basing, Hampshire

Beamfleot

Benfleet, Essex

Beardastopol

Barnstable, Devon

Bebbanburg

Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland

Berewic

Berwick on Tweed, Northumberland

Berrocscire

Berkshire

Blaland

North Africa

Cantucton

Cannington, Somerset

Cetreht

Catterick, Yorkshire

Cippanhamm

Chippenham, Wiltshire

Cirrenceastre

Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Cridianton

Crediton, Devon

Cynuit

Cynuit Hillfort, near Cannington, Somerset

Contwaraburg

Canterbury, Kent

Cornwalum

Cornwall

Dalriada

Western Scotland

Deoraby

Derby, Derbyshire

Defnascir

Devonshire

Dic

Diss, Norfolk

Dunholm

Durham, County Durham

Eoferwic

York (also the Danish Jorvic, pronounced Yorvik)

Exanceaster

Exeter, Devon

Fromtun

Frampton- upon- Severn, Gloucestershire

Gegnesburh

Gainsborough, Lincolnshire

The Gewæsc

The Wash

Gleawecestre

Gloucester, Gloucestershire

Grantaceaster

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

Gyruum Jarrow,

County Durham

Hamanfunta

Havant, Hampshire

Hamptonscir

Hampshire

Hamtun

Southampton, Hampshire

Haithabu

Hedeby, trading town in southern Denmark

Heilincigae

Hayling Island, Hampshire

Hreapandune

Repton, Derbyshire

Kenet

River Kennet

Ledecestre

Leicester

Lindisfarena

Lindisfarne (Holy Island), Northumberland

Lundene

London

Mereton

Marten, Wiltshire

Meslach

Matlock, Derbyshire

Pedredan

River Parrett

The Poole

Poole Harbour, Dorset

Pictland

Eastern Scotland

Readingum

Reading, Berkshire

Sæfern

River Severn

Scireburnan

Sherborne, Dorset

Snotengaham

Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

Streonshall

Strensall, Yorkshire

Sumorsæte

Somerset

Suth Seaxa

Sussex (South Saxons)

Synningthwait

Swinithwaite, Yorkshire

Temes

River Thames

Thornsæta

Dorset

Tine

River Tine

Trente

River Trente

Tuede

River Tweed

Twyfyrde

Tiverton, Devon

Uisc

River Exe

Werham

Wareham, Dorset

With

Isle of Wight

Wiire

River Wear

Wiltun

Wilton, Wiltshire

Wiltunscir

Wiltshire

Winburnan

Wimborne Minster, Dorset

Wintanceaster

Winchester, Hampshire

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