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PLACE NAMES

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The spelling of place names in Anglo-Saxon England was an uncertain business, with no consistency and no agreement even about the name itself. Thus London was variously rendered as Lundonia, Lundenberg, Lundenne, Lundene, Lundenwic, Lundenceaster and Lundres. Doubtless some readers will prefer other versions of the names listed below, but I have usually employed whichever spelling is cited in either the Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names or the Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names for the years nearest or contained within Alfred’s reign, AD 871–899, but even that solution is not foolproof. Hayling Island, in 956, was written as both Heilincigae and Hæglingaiggæ. Nor have I been consistent myself; I have preferred the modern form Northumbria to Norðhymbralond to avoid the suggestion that the boundaries of the ancient kingdom coincide with those of the modern county. So this list, like the spellings themselves, is capricious.

Æsc’s Hill Ashdown, Berkshire
Alencestre Alcester, Warwickshire
Beamfleot Benfleet, Essex
Bebbanburg Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland
Brunanburh Bromborough, Cheshire
Cair Ligualid Carlisle, Cumbria
Ceaster Chester, Cheshire
Cent Kent
Contwaraburg Canterbury, Kent
Cumbraland Cumbria
Dunholm Durham, County Durham
Dyflin Dublin, Eire
Eads Byrig Eddisbury Hill, Cheshire
Eoferwic York, Yorkshire
Gleawecestre Gloucester, Gloucestershire
Hedene River Eden, Cumbria
Horn Hofn, Iceland
Hrothwulf’s farm Rocester, Staffordshire
Jorvik York, Yorkshire
Ledecestre Leicester, Leicestershire
Liccelfeld Lichfield, Staffordshire
Lindcolne Lincoln, Lincolnshire
Loch Cuan Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland
Lundene London
Mærse River Mersey
Mann Isle of Man
Sæfern River Severn
Strath Clota Strathclyde, Scotland
Use River Ouse
Wiltunscir Wiltshire
Wintanceaster Winchester, Hampshire
Wirhealum The Wirral, Cheshire
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