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| Name Ending |
| Introduction |
| -bec, beck |
| -burgh |
| -by, bi |
| -chester, caister |
| -den, dene |
| -don |
| -field |
| -firth |
| -ford |
| -hall |
| -ham |
| -ing |
| -kirk |
| -ley, lea, leigh |
| -minster |
| -scale |
| -sea, sey |
| -shaw, shawe |
| -stock, stoke, stow |
| -thwaite |
| -ton |
| -ville |
| -wick |
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New Light on Old Place Names
| | FIRTH |
Basic meaning="entrance" |
A few place names using the term
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Firth is used in places in Northern England and Scotland. It can mean the estuary of a river such as the Firth of Forth (entry to the River Forth). This would logically suggest that that name was given by someone approaching from the sea - such as the Vikings.
Inland, it often means an entrance or border clearing in a wood. It was common for settlers to choose an entry (or exit of a stream) on the eastern side of a wood or forest (because in most of England, the prevailing wind is from the west - hence the home they would build there would be sheltered from the worst of the weather.) The origin of the word may have been Fjord, or the Anglo-Saxon Frithian (sheltered)
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