Abstract
IN the study of place-names, as in archæology, the interest of the early history of the county of Nottingham centres in the valley of the Trent. The one place-name which is recorded earlier than the ninth century, Tiouulfingacaestir, is identified with the Roman station of Segelocum at the point where the river was crossed by the main road from Lincoln to Doncaster; and the rock of Nottingham, which was of military importance throughout the period of the Danish War, overlooks the junction of the Leen and the Trent at the southern end of Sherwood Forest. The names of these rivers themselves, as so frequently in Britain, are relics of British settlement, and the Angles, using the rivers as their highway to Derbyshire and Staffordshire, established themselves here and there on either bank.
The Place-Names of Nottinghamshire
By J. E. B. Gover Allen Mawer F. M. Stenton. (English Place-Name Society, Vol. 17.) Pp. xlii + 348. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1940.) 21s. net.
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The Place-Names of Nottinghamshire. Nature 146, 820–821 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146820a0
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