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Quite apart from the inherent interest in a place- name, the fact that in England there are six successive layers of language reflected in the stock of place-names means that they provide vital evidence for dating and, indeed, for estimating the mixture of races in the composition of a nation. This work remains the only new general study of English place-names to have appeared in over twenty-five years.

Margaret Gelling