The Place-Names of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Part VII : Introduction, Bibliography, River-Names, Road-Names, Analysis (English Place-Name Society Volume XXXVI)

Author(s): Smith, A H

Binding:	Hardcover
Volume Condition:	Very Good
Dust Jacket:	No
Dust Jacket Condition:	Very Good
Edition:	1st Edition
Language:	English
Publisher Name:	Cambridge at the University Press
Publication Year:	1962
Book ID:	004552
Catalogue(s):	Local Interest and History - Yorkshire and Humberside

xviii, 222pp, complete with seven fold out maps in bound-in pocket at rear showing the Wapentakes of the West Riding of Yorkshire. In blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine (boards just a little rounded and worn at spine tips). Faint library stamp on upper text block edge, cataloguing numbers on copyright page, and clean remains of library lending sheet on front endpapers. Else generally neat and clean internally barring a hint of toning and slightly soft. In its original dust jacket (lightly rubbed at edges, slightly chipped at head of sunned spine, a few small and mild marks). The seventh volume of an eight volume set resulting from the largest county survey undertaken to date by the English Place-Name Society, this present volume includes general introduction to the survey, analysis, further reading and research and the river and road-names of the West Riding of Yorkshire, together with geological, archaeological and historical background to the Riding itself.

Keywords:

place-names yorkshire west riding local history Nidd Ouse Wharfe Ouse