The Place-Name Evidence for a Routeway Network in Early Medieval England

by Ann Cole

This study uses place‐names to suggest the major routes in use in early medieval England. Many Roman roads existing by the fifth century are known. Some fourteenth century routes in existence can be deduced from the Gough map of c.1360, and seventeenth century routes from Ogilby's road atlas of 1675. Between the fifth and fourteenth centuries there is little information about routes except in scattered charter boundary references. Here it is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140731209X
• ISBN13: 9781407312095
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 2.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.3" x 11.7"