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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
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.
Here is a list of places, divided by ceremonial counties of England. Northumberland. ... List of generic forms in British place names; List of places in the United ...
This is a list of cities in the United Kingdom that are officially designated as such as of 12 November 2022. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It lists those places that have been granted city status by letters patent or royal charter .
All place names are assigned to the appropriate administrative areas existing as at 31 December 2015. The Index gives some alternative names for places, as well as Welsh-language names where appropriate. The 2016 edition of the IPN is the first to also feature Scottish place names.
A partial list of Roman place names in Great Britain. [1] This list includes only names documented from Roman times. For a more complete list including later Latin names, see List of Latin place names in Britain. The early sources for Roman names show numerous variants and misspellings of the Latin names.
Dalrigh and possibly some of the places called Dalry; Portree (disputed) Kingsburgh, Skye is a corruption of Cinnseaborgh, which is in turn a corruption of a Norse name. In many places "Kin(g)" is a suffix meaning "head", an anglicisation of Ceann: Kinghorn and Kingussie, for example, are nothing to do with royal patronage.
This is part of the list of United Kingdom locations: a gazetteer of place names in the United Kingdom showing each place's locality and geographical coordinates.