Cumbrian toponymy refers to the study of place names in Cumbria, a county in North West England, and as a result of the spread of the ancient Cumbric...
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Cumbric (redirect from Cumbrian language)
Cumbric dying out between 1250 and 1300 at the very latest. Cumbrian dialect Cumbrian toponymy Kenneth H. Jackson Kingdom of Strathclyde Nicolaisen, W. F...
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Inver as place-name elements Celtic onomastics Celtic toponymy Cumbrian toponymy Irish toponymy List of generic forms in place names in the United Kingdom...
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adoption by Thomas Comber in c. 1880. List of tautological place names Cumbrian toponymy Francis, Darryl (2003). "The Debunking of Torpenhow Hill". Word Ways...
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survived, with the exception of place name elements (especially in Cumbrian toponymy) and the Yan Tan Tethera counting system, which largely fell out of...
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Crime Commissioner Cumbria shootings Cumbrian dialect Barrovian Cumbrian toponymy Cumbric language Etymology of Cumbrian place names Healthcare in Cumbria...
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suffix dale clearly derives from the word for valley in Old Norse; see Cumbrian toponymy. It is archaeologically certain that Vikings inhabited the region...
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Stott Park Bobbin Mill (section Toponymy)
England Awards for Excellence in 2015. The name Stott Park derives from the Cumbrian dialect word stott meaning a bullock or young ox. The whole area of High...
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Brittonic-speaking Welsh (in Wales), Cornish (in Cornwall), Bretons (in Brittany) and Cumbrians (in the Old North); and the Goidelic-speaking Irish (in Ireland), Scots...
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History of Lancashire (section Toponymy)
England, much of northern England was inhabited by the Brigantes, though the Cumbrian highland area was inhabited by the Carvetii, who were possibly a tribe...
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Brittonic-speaking Welsh (in Wales), Cornish (in Cornwall), Bretons (in Brittany) and Cumbrians (in the Old North); and the Gaelic-speaking Irish (in Ireland), Scots...
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List of United Kingdom county name etymologies (category British toponymy)
2004) ISBN 1-84158-323-5 List of counties of the United Kingdom British toponymy List of generic forms in British place names Welsh placenames United Nations...
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Penrith, Cumbria (section Toponymy)
stationed there, giving its name to the subsequent town, but see the "Toponymy" section above. The Roman road from Manchester to Carlisle ran through...
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Renfrewshire (historic) (section Toponymy)
Vanduara (Paisley). Following the end of Roman rule in Britain in 410, the Cumbrian Britons, with their capital at Dumbarton, retained a hold on all the territory...
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bend of the river". Among the later scholars supporting the "cheese farm" toponymy are Eilert Ekwall (1960) and A. D. Mills (2011) (both Oxford University...
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which were exploited by early miners. The first documented mining in the Cumbrian area was in Bigrigg mine roughly 15 miles south of Little Clifton in the...
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Barrow-in-Furness (section Toponymy)
connections to Whitehaven, Workington and Carlisle to the north, via the Cumbrian Coast Line, and to Ulverston, Grange-over-Sands and Lancaster to the east...
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