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THE CONCISE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH PLACE-NAMES. By Eilert Ekwall. Oxford University Press, 1936. pp. 520. 15s

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1936

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1 It is to be wished that some enterprising publisher would persuade Mr Toms to re–issue his articles in book form. A Batsford ‘Book of Ponds’, with abundant plans as well as beautiful photographs, would be a welcome addition to the topographer’s library.

2 Monumenta Britannica, Bodleian Library.

3 Custom is King, 1936, p. 188 Google Scholar I am indebted to Canon Doble for kindly putting me right.

4 This information reached me too late for use on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey map of Britain in the Dark Ages (South sheet).

5 See Phillimore, , Y Cymmrodor, 1892, 11, 173;Google Scholar Liber Landavensis, ed. 1893, p. 47 and index;Google Scholar John, Rhys, Arthurian Legend. 81, 365.Google Scholar

6 Vit. Anon. S. Cuthbert, St. Omer, MS. 267, 9th century ; cf. Bede, Vit. Cuthb. Acta SS. 1736, Mar. III, 108.

7 This occurs in a Perambulation of Blackmore Forest (Hearne’s, Adam de Domerham, 1727, 2, 653).Google Scholar the passage was accidentally omitted from Hutchins’s transcription (History of Dorset 4, 519).Google Scholar

8 For other instances see ANTIQUITY, 1934, 8, 338–9.Google Scholar