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Toponymy of England; Toponymical list of counties of the United Kingdom; List of generic forms in British place names; List of places in the United Kingdom; Subdivisions of the United Kingdom; List of places in Northern Ireland; List of places in Scotland; List of places in Wales; List of cities in the United Kingdom; List of towns in England
This article lists a number of common generic forms in place names in the British Isles, their meanings and some examples of their use. The study of place names is called toponymy ; for a more detailed examination of this subject in relation to British and Irish place names, refer to Toponymy in the United Kingdom and Ireland .
Despite its frequency in English place-names, the word seems never to have been borrowed into English as a common noun. [ 1 ] Although in 2000, Richard Coates and Andrew Breeze commented that "the representation of this element in English names needs further careful study", [ 2 ] : 348 its evidence for both the history of /k/ and /t/ has since ...
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The Index of Place Names (IPN) in Great Britain is published by the Office for National Statistics.. The IPN is a list of "places" in Great Britain. For each "place" included, the IPN lists which areas that place is located within, for each of a set of administrative geographies.
List of places in England; Lists of places in Wales; List of places in Scotland; List of places in Northern Ireland; Toponymy in the United Kingdom and Ireland, the study of place names; List of generic forms in place names in the British Isles; United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names
List of adjectival and demonymic forms of place names; List of adjectivals and demonyms of astronomical bodies; List of adjectival and demonymic forms for countries and nations; List of administrative division name changes; List of placenames of Indigenous origin in the Americas; List of renamed places in Angola; List of Arabic place names
Name list Subdivision Place Pronunciation Notes Respelling IPA; England: Acomb, North Yorkshire: YAK-əm / ˈ j æ k ə m / [1] Historic; now regular England: Acomb, Northumberland: YEK-əm / ˈ j ɛ k ə m / [1] Historic; now regular England: Acrise: AY-kris / ˈ eɪ k r ɪ s / ⓘ Northern Ireland: Ahoghill: a-HOKH-il /æˈhɒxɪl/ England ...