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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 .
Hogsmeade Village is the only settlement in Britain inhabited solely by magical beings, and is located to the northwest of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It was founded by medieval wizard Hengist of Woodcroft. [20] Much of Hogsmeade's architecture reflects its medieval origin; the village is known for its leaning medieval houses.
This list of lost settlements in the United Kingdom includes deserted medieval villages (DMVs), shrunken villages, abandoned villages and other settlements known to have been lost, depopulated or significantly reduced in size over the centuries. There are estimated to be as many as 3,000 DMVs in England.
This old layer of names was overlaid with Latin names in the Gallo-Roman period, [16] and, from the medieval period, with Alemannic German [17] and Romance [18] names. For some names, there is uncertainty as to whether they are Gaulish or Latin in origin.
Ancient (bracketed) and modern places in the Iberian Peninsula which have names containing the Celtic elements -brigā or -bris < -brixs 'hill, hillfort'. The Celtic toponymy of Galicia is the whole of the ancient or modern place, river, or mountain names which were originated inside a Celtic language, and thus have Celtic etymology, and which are or were located inside the limits of modern ...
A medieval field name in Bristol in England, euphemised in the seventeenth-century to 'Pucking Grove'. Fugging: The name of two different villages in Austria, both of which had to be renamed from Fucking: one in Lower Austria, which was renamed in 1836, and one in Upper Austria, renamed in 2021 after
Deserted medieval village abandoned before the 17th century when a farmstead is recorded. [147] Little Barwick See Middleton Little Bittering: Deserted medieval village recorded in the Domesday Book and visible as earthworks. St Peter and St Paul's Church dates from the 12th century. The parish was united with Beeston in the 20th century.
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