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First reference gives the word as the local pronunciation of go out; the second as "A water-pipe under the ground. A sewer. A flood-gate, through which the marsh-water runs from the reens into the sea." Reen is a Somerset word, not used in the Fens. Gout appears to be cognate with the French égout, "sewer". Though the modern mind associates ...
Barna Gap, Ireland – (Gap Gap – barna is the Irish word for a mountain gap) Baie Verte-Green Bay, electoral district in Newfoundland and Labrador (Baie Verte is French for Green Bay) Beechhurst Holt Wood, England (beech wood wood wood – Anglo-Saxon) Boulder Rock, Ross Dependency, Antarctica
The hide was the basis for the assessment of taxes. The hide was not ubiquitous in Anglo-Saxon England, with, for example, land in Kent being assessed in sulungs (approximately twice the size of the average hide). a Knight's fee: is the amount of land for which the services of a knight (for 40 days) were due to the Crown. It was determined by ...
A map of burhs named in the 10th-century Burghal Hidage.. A burh (Old English pronunciation:) or burg was an Anglo-Saxon fortification or fortified settlement. In the 9th century, raids and invasions by Vikings prompted Alfred the Great to develop a network of burhs and roads to use against such attackers.
In Anglo-Saxon England, though the kings were great huntsmen, they never set aside areas declared to be "outside" (Latin foris) the law of the land. [4] Historians find no evidence of the Anglo-Saxon monarchs (c. 500 to 1066) creating forests. [5] However, under the Norman kings (after 1066), by royal prerogative forest law was widely applied. [6]
Other place-names are hybrids of Celtic and Anglo-Saxon elements. There is a high level of personal names within the place names, presumably the names of local landowners at the time of naming. In the north and east, there are many place names of Norse origin; similarly, these contain many personal names.
The name of the city became Cambridge due to the Norman influence within the city in the 12th century. The name of the river Cam within Cambridge is a backwards derivation. Cheshire: CH Ancient Old English: Legeceasterscīr, later Ceasterscīr [1] Shire of Chester. Chester derives from the OE ceaster meaning an old Roman town
However, this word was almost certainly borrowed into the Germanic languages prior to the migration of the Anglo-Saxons into Britain, and it may have been used natively by Germanic-speaking settlers. Other Latin elements in British place-names were adopted in the medieval period as affectations.