The Place-Names of Shropshire. Part 8, Overs Hundred, the Borough of Ludlow, the southern part of Munslow Hundred and the Stowe Division of Purslow Hundred

Baker, John; Carroll, Jayne

Abstract

his Part covers an area of approximately 140 square miles in the south of the county, between the Franchise of Wenlock and the Hundred of Stottesdon to the east and the Hundred of Clun to the west. The introduction provides an overview of information about landscape and land-use, administrative, tenurial and industrial industry history, and dialect preserved in the area's place-names. This is the second part of the county's survey to be published as an outcome of the Place-Names of Shropshire project, incorporating and supplementing material collected by Margaret Gelling and George Foxhall.

Citation

Baker, J., & Carroll, J. (2020). The Place-Names of Shropshire. Part 8, Overs Hundred, the Borough of Ludlow, the southern part of Munslow Hundred and the Stowe Division of Purslow Hundred. Nottingham: English Place-Name Society

• Book Type: Authored Book
• Publication Date: Dec 14, 2020
• Deposit Date: Dec 17, 2020
• Series Title: Survey of English Place-Names
• Series Number: 95
• ISBN: 9780904889949
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/4960554
• Publisher URL: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/epns/survey/volumes.aspx