Outputs (3)

Bringing the Survey home: adventures in community engagement (2025)
Journal Article
Baker, J., Carroll, J., & Kilby, S. (2025). Bringing the Survey home: adventures in community engagement. Journal of the English Place‑Name Society, 55,

The purpose of this paper is to celebrate the long-standing partnership between the Survey of English Place-Names and local communities, to recognise the great debt the Survey owes for the work of volunteers over the last hundred years, and to reflec... Read More about Bringing the Survey home: adventures in community engagement.

Place-Names, People, and Landscape in Medieval Staffordshire (2023)
Book Chapter
Baker, J., Carroll, J., & Kilby, S. (2023). Place-Names, People, and Landscape in Medieval Staffordshire. In I. Atherton, M. Blake, A. Sargent, & A. Tomkins (Eds.), Local Histories: Essays in Honour of Nigel Tringham (115-131). Staffordshire Record Society

Identifying migrants in medieval England: the possibilities and limitations of place-name evidence (2020)
Book Chapter
Carroll, J. (2020). Identifying migrants in medieval England: the possibilities and limitations of place-name evidence. In J. Story, W. Ormrod, & E. Tyler (Eds.), Migrants in Medieval England, c. 500-1500. Oxford University Press

Many English place-names came into existence in the early medieval period as descriptive, meaningful phrases (‘the river estate’, ‘the clear stream’, ‘Edward’s farm’, and so on).They evolved in the conversation of ordinary people as they referred to... Read More about Identifying migrants in medieval England: the possibilities and limitations of place-name evidence.