[NR] Results from the NORTHERN REGIONAL NAMING SURVEY

[SBarrett]

More importantly, the name has to be in a documentable period style
pattern, which is unfortunately where many of the proposed names fall
down... just because you can translate a few words into a language
doesn't mean the *pattern* is a period one! To quote from the Rules
for Submission, "for example, there is a pattern of using the names of
kinds of animals with -ford in the attested English place names
Oxford, Swinford and Hartford. A case could be made for inventing a
similar name like Sheepford."  But not, you see, for Busyford; "busy"
might be descriptive of the ford, but isn't an animal and thus doesn't
match the pattern.

-Emma
(one of them pesky heralds)

This is an excellent point, and it got me wondering about Old English names 
using descriptives like "busy".

Luckily, I found some.

Wawne - quaking bog (quaking a good example of a verbal descriptive)
Glatton - pleasant farmstead
Horham - muddy farmstead
Windle - windy hill
Defford - deep ford
Islip - slippery place by the river Ise

I suppose the question now would be construction, though if common 
toponomics like 'ton', 'ham' and 'ford' are usable with these descriptives, 
I would be curious why thorpe, wood/wode, mere, gard, keep or caster would 
not.

These may not be perfect, but they might give the northern heralds a 
starting point.
My source was..
http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/engplnam.html?referer=www.clickfind.com.au

~Finnacan




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