Place Names & Gazetteers

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    Furry Boots: Tom Shields' Scottish Diary - Tom Shields - Paperback
    Tom Shields sets of on a voyage of discovery to compile a geographical dictionary of the places we come from. Does Bonkie live up to its name? Do people get reekin in Brechin?
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    Collins Scottish Place Names - Paperback
    Covering many languages and cultures, this is a guide to the places of Scotland and the traditions associated with them. It covers the meanings of over 800 place names, including towns and cities, mountains and hills, lochs and rivers, and also covers the history and traditions of each place.
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    Scottish Place Names - Maggie Scott - Paperback
    Maggie Scott takes the reader around the country from Dumfries to Shetland to explain the meanings of the places that make up today's Scotland.
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    London Gazetteer - Russ Willey - Paperback
    Packed with historical detail and quirky facts and anecdotes, this book provides a fascinating panorama of London. It contains over 1300 entries from Westminster to Woodridings that cover the breadth of this multifaceted capital city.
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    Chambers World Factfinder - Paperback
    'Chambers World Factfinder' provides an insight into our world, presented in an accessible manner. Details of individual nations are supplemented by information on diverse cultural aspects of selected countries, while descriptions of the physical world are complemented by coverage of key environmental issues.
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    Scottish Hill Names: The Origin And Meaning Of The Names Of Scotland's Hills And Mountains - Peter Drummond - Hardback
    This completely revised and expanded second edition makes use of the recent availability of the oldest comprehensive maps of Scotland - dating from the late 16th and mid-17th centuries - on the website of the National Library of Scotland. Some of the maps are reproduced here in colour.
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    London Gazetteer - Russ Willey - Hardback
    Packed with historical detail and quirky facts and anecdotes, this book provides a fascinating panorama of London. It contains over 1300 entries from Westminster to Woodridings that cover the breadth of this multifaceted capital city.
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    The History Of The Celtic Place-Names Of Scotland - William J. Watson - Paperback
    A useful reference for anyone interested in Scottish history and the derivations of place names the length and breadth of the country, this authoritative book has sections on early names, territorial divisions and general surveys of areas. It also looks at saints, church terms and river names.
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    The Place Names Of Edinburgh - Stuart Harris - Paperback
    An introduction giving a historical overview is followed by detailed entries on thousands of places within the modern city of Edinburgh. This work is about names old and new - the names of every modern street as well as those given to places and hills and rivers over the past 20 centuries and more.
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    Scottish Place-Name Papers - William J. Watson - Paperback
    The papers in this work include theoretical principles, original fieldwork and general surveys in which Watson explores Gaelic, Norse and Pictish/British elements to be found in Scotland's place names today.

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