by Nick Corcos

Ekwall, E, 1960 (3rd edn.), The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names, 440-441, Oxford: OUP. For an extended examination of this word as it occurs in English place-names, see Sandred, K I, 1963, English place-names in -stead, Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis Studia Anglistica Upsaliensia.

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