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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 newer 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 Nor hymbralond 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
Æscengum Eashing, Surrey
Æthelingæg Athelney, Somerset
Beamfleot Benfleet, Essex
Bebbanburg Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland
Caninga Canvey Island, Essex
Cent Kent
Defnascir Devonshire
Dumnoc Dunwich, Suffolk (now mostly vanished beneath the sea)
Dunholm Durham, County Durham
East Sexe Essex
Eoferwic York
Ethandun Edington, Wiltshire
Exanceaster Exeter, Devon
Farnea Islands Farne Islands, Northumberland
Fearnhamme Farnham, Surrey
Fughelness Foulness Island, Essex
Grantaceaster Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Gleawecestre Gloucester, Gloucestershire
Godelmingum Godalming, Surrey
Hæthlegh Hadleigh, Essex
Haithabu Hedeby, southern Denmark
Hocheleia Hockley, Essex
Hothlege Hadleigh Ray, Essex
Humbre River Humber
Hwealf River Crouch, Essex
Lecelad Lechlade, Gloucestershire
Liccelfeld Lichfield, Staffordshire
Lindisfarena Lindisfarne (Holy Island), Northumberland
Lundene London
Sæfern River Severn
Scaepege Isle of Sheppey, Kent
Silcestre Silchester, Hampshire
Sumorsæte Somerset
Suthriganaweorc Southwark, Greater London
Temes River Thames
Thunresleam Thundersley, Essex
Tinan River Tyne
Torneie Thorney Island, an island that has disappeared – it lay close to the West Drayton station near Heathrow Airport
Tuede River Tweed
Uisc River Exe, Devonshire
Wiltunscir Wiltshire
Wintanceaster Winchester, Hampshire
Yppe Epping, Essex
Zegge Fictional Frisian island
The Burning Land

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