{"id":2973,"date":"2022-04-08T09:30:02","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T09:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/?p=2973"},"modified":"2022-04-01T10:07:35","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T10:07:35","slug":"the-survey-of-english-place-names-dorset-congratulations-are-in-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/2022\/04\/08\/the-survey-of-english-place-names-dorset-congratulations-are-in-order\/","title":{"rendered":"The Survey of English Place-Names: Dorset \u2013 congratulations are in order!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Could you imagine the song of French birds in Cattistock? The estate-name Chantmarle<\/em> is formed of a surname deriving from a French place-name \u2018sing blackbird\u2019.<\/p>\n

Brog Street in Sleight, Corfe Mullen, was found to be on the line of a Roman road or str\u01e3t<\/em> \u2013 a demonstration that place-names can be significant for archaeology.<\/p>\n

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D-DPA\/1\/CAT\/13<\/a>: Chantmarle House<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cancer Drove in Holnest originated less astrologically or oncologically as Canshaw<\/em> \u2018Cana\u2019s copse\u2019.<\/p>\n

Sodom Lane in Marnhull remains that despite efforts by inhabitants to change it in 1974 \u2013 it probably originated as \u2018south down\u2019, but biblical familiarity took over.<\/p>\n

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These and many more treasures can be discovered in the five volumes of The Place-Names of Dorset<\/em>, published by the English Place-Name Society. This survey is grounded in the collection and analysis of an enormous amount of documentary evidence, backed by impressive expertise in the linguistic history of England, leading to explanations of the origin of many thousands of place-names of all kinds. It ranges from those names that are even older than the Anglo-Saxon takeover to modern street-names.<\/p>\n

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David Mills<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The county editor, A. D. (David) Mills, produced the first volume in 1977, with the final one, containing the county-wide linguistic, historical and geographical analyses and indexes, appearing in high COVID-19 time in 2020. This illustrates the fact that a county survey is an academic lifetime\u2019s work \u2013 even longer in some cases, alas, but David has brought his labour to a successful conclusion. The Society hopes that many people in Dorset and elsewhere will find the work to be of consuming interest in itself \u2013 a casual browse can lead to hours of distracted fascination \u2012 and to be an authoritative and irreplaceable guide in their work as historians, archaeologists, geographers and linguists.<\/p>\n

The completion of a county survey is particularly rare, the last being Rutland in 1997 and Leicestershire in 2019 \u2013 two in two years being unheard-of in recent times! The Society hopes to contribute to an event in Dorset to publicize this momentous achievement. Another post will follow when arrangements have reached a decisive stage.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

This was a guest blog written for Dorset History Centre by Richard Coates, President, English Place-Name Society,\u00a0University of the West of England, Bristol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Could you imagine the song of French birds in Cattistock? The estate-name Chantmarle is formed of a surname deriving from a French place-name \u2018sing blackbird\u2019. Brog Street in Sleight, Corfe Mullen, was found to be on the line of a Roman road or str\u01e3t \u2013 a demonstration that place-names can be significant for archaeology. Cancer… Read more The Survey of English Place-Names: Dorset \u2013 congratulations are in order!<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1892,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[82,184,431,109],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1892"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2973"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2986,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973\/revisions\/2986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}