Originally published in 2004 this alphabetical dictionary is a major reference work based on the archives of the English Place-Name Society & reflecting the scholarship in the subject of all the names of cities towns villages hamlets rivers streams hills & other geographical locations included in the Ordnance Survey Road Atlas of Great Britain (1983). It provides a reflection of contemporary England not just its historical past. Every place-name entry has a unique National Grid reference number a list of historical spellings the age & meaning of the name & its etymology (pre-Indo-European Indo-European Celtic Primitive Welsh Anglo-Saxon Old Norse Old French Middle English Modern English). Where appropriate a commentary is provided on comparable names on the problems history & significance of the name for settlement economic & social history the development of the language & on its variant pronunciations & spellings.