<![CDATA[Alfred's Serif Users' Forums — The origin of place names in England]]> https://punster.me/serif/viewtopic.php?id=302 Fri, 18 Nov 2022 09:51:26 +0000 PunBB <![CDATA[The origin of place names in England]]> https://punster.me/serif/viewtopic.php?pid=2267#p2267 I have known for a long time of the fact that some place names ending in -by, such as Grimsby, have a Viking origin.

New to me is the extent of the influence in English place names of the language that now survives as Welsh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQoVaPvRqvc

William

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