Tom Ikins wrote:
> What best defines the current area of England where British (or pre-English) > place-names were essentially extinguished (according to current thinking).
> Would LHEB's map of British River Names & the mid-6th century line from the
> Occupation map best describe it? Anything more refined? I didn't realize that > the subject was so controversial.
There are maps of the individual counties (only! And in alphabetical order...), along with a pretty definitive gazetteer of Celtic and pre-Celtic place-names in English counties in:
R. Coates, A. Breeze, D. Horovitz, Celtic Voices English Places: Studies of the Celtic Impact on Place-Names in England (Shaun Tyas, 2000)
Sorry to add to your reading list!
There are (relatively more) Celtic names in West, South-West and North-West England - the rest is pretty sparse. They are "essentially extinguished" everywhere except Cornwall and the Welsh border.
John Briggs
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