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I don't think that Cameron or anyone else actually stated that the places with kirkjuby -names were located on better soils nut it is clear that almost all the places with kirkjuby-names have situations that in one way or another are favourable and this is presumably that all these places existed before the arrival of the Vikings and had become suitable sites for the erection of churches. I have mentioned this in connection with the names that I have discussed in my books on Yorkshire, the East Midlands and the North-West, as well as specifically in a paper held at the tenth Viking congress. This was printed in Proceedings of the Tenth Viking Congress, Larkollen, Norway, 1985, published in Oslo, 1987, , pp.295-307. Gillian Fellows-Jensen From: "Vladislav Alpatov" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 1:30 PM Subject: [EPNL] kirkju-by and soil Hello to all! Cameron discovered -by and other Scandinavian names corresponded with poorer soils than English names in Danelaw. I read somewhere that the only exception are kirkju-by names that are located on better soils, but I can't now remember where this is stated. Can anyone help with a reference?