Bird place-name of the day 113: SUGHAM FM (Lingfield, Surrey). OE sucga + ham. ‘Farm/estate frequented by sparrows’. #birdsandplace #naturewriting #oldenglish #placenames
November 16, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Bird place-name of the day 113: SUGHAM FM (Lingfield, Surrey). OE sucga + ham. ‘Farm/estate frequented by sparrows’. #birdsandplace #naturewriting #oldenglish #placenames
One of my favourite placenames
New Twopothouse, Co. Cork.
From an 18th century coaching inn, the 'Two-Pot House Inn'. When the Cork to Limerick road was built a new coaching stop was opened and named 'New Two-Pot-House' to distinguish it from the coaching stop on the older road.
#speirgorm
From an 18th century coaching inn, the 'Two-Pot House Inn'. When the Cork to Limerick road was built a new coaching stop was opened and named 'New Two-Pot-House' to distinguish it from the coaching stop on the older road.
#speirgorm
November 12, 2025 at 11:11 AM
One of my favourite placenames
An evening of wonder chatting with @drmjwarren.bsky.social last night about his beautifully-written book THE CUCKOO'S LEA, at The Bookery in Crediton - discussing crows & owls, placenames & Anglo-Saxon Charters!
Buy Michael's book here or from your local indy -
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cuckoos-l...
Buy Michael's book here or from your local indy -
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cuckoos-l...
November 14, 2025 at 11:06 AM
An evening of wonder chatting with @drmjwarren.bsky.social last night about his beautifully-written book THE CUCKOO'S LEA, at The Bookery in Crediton - discussing crows & owls, placenames & Anglo-Saxon Charters!
Buy Michael's book here or from your local indy -
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cuckoos-l...
Buy Michael's book here or from your local indy -
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cuckoos-l...
November 12, 2025 at 12:06 PM
ON hestr occurs in many #NorthernIsles #PlaceNames including Hestivall #Rousay where it is compounded with ON vǫllr m. ‘plain, meadow, pasture’; Hesti Geo #FairIsle compounded with gjá f. ‘inlet, coastal gully’ & Marwick notes the #Papay fishing mark Hest as well as a tide so-names S. of the Holm.
Yesterday’s #Wordle: hestr (sb. m.): 268 cits, e.g. (horse as working animal/object of value/trading good) riding horse, workhorse, hackney) ‘ok þa skulo þit spreta gio᷎rðunvm hennar. skal Dagr þat gera ok lata sem hann gyrðe hestinn er þer kom…’ (Heið in Holm perg 18 4°) onp.ku.dk/o33936
November 13, 2025 at 9:30 AM
ON hestr occurs in many #NorthernIsles #PlaceNames including Hestivall #Rousay where it is compounded with ON vǫllr m. ‘plain, meadow, pasture’; Hesti Geo #FairIsle compounded with gjá f. ‘inlet, coastal gully’ & Marwick notes the #Papay fishing mark Hest as well as a tide so-names S. of the Holm.
Off topic, but one of Britain's best placenames there
November 11, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Off topic, but one of Britain's best placenames there
Mapa Gàidhlig na Seachdaine
Siorrachd Lannraig a Deas ~ South Lanarkshire
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#AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic #Maps
Siorrachd Lannraig a Deas ~ South Lanarkshire
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#AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic #Maps
November 14, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Mapa Gàidhlig na Seachdaine
Siorrachd Lannraig a Deas ~ South Lanarkshire
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#AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic #Maps
Siorrachd Lannraig a Deas ~ South Lanarkshire
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#AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic #Maps
Our next book by Paul Cavill and Steve Harding from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social explores the latest research on the possible location of the Battle of Brunanburh in 937: storefront.chester.ac.uk/index.php?ma...
#Brunanburh #placenames #History #Archaeology #wirral #cheshire #merseyside
#Brunanburh #placenames #History #Archaeology #wirral #cheshire #merseyside
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Our next book by Paul Cavill and Steve Harding from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social explores the latest research on the possible location of the Battle of Brunanburh in 937: storefront.chester.ac.uk/index.php?ma...
#Brunanburh #placenames #History #Archaeology #wirral #cheshire #merseyside
#Brunanburh #placenames #History #Archaeology #wirral #cheshire #merseyside
I left AoNZ as a kid in '77 when 99% of the placenames were Euro; came back 2001 and I *learnt*the*Māori*names* because that's what they are.
I'm in my 50's. There are MANY words, technologies, concepts, that didn't even exist when I was born. Don't be an arse; just learn the words. Use them.
I'm in my 50's. There are MANY words, technologies, concepts, that didn't even exist when I was born. Don't be an arse; just learn the words. Use them.
#30DayMapchallenge Day 8, Urban.
People don't realise what a big deal it is for acceptance of place names to change in such a short time without wars/dictators/invasion/etc. Just people, within a generation, deciding it is the right thing to do. mapdata::NZHires baseman + Affinity Publisher.
People don't realise what a big deal it is for acceptance of place names to change in such a short time without wars/dictators/invasion/etc. Just people, within a generation, deciding it is the right thing to do. mapdata::NZHires baseman + Affinity Publisher.
November 8, 2025 at 7:49 AM
I left AoNZ as a kid in '77 when 99% of the placenames were Euro; came back 2001 and I *learnt*the*Māori*names* because that's what they are.
I'm in my 50's. There are MANY words, technologies, concepts, that didn't even exist when I was born. Don't be an arse; just learn the words. Use them.
I'm in my 50's. There are MANY words, technologies, concepts, that didn't even exist when I was born. Don't be an arse; just learn the words. Use them.
driving around the Capital Region pronouncing Dutch placenames like incantations
The Hound is one of Lovecraft's funniest stories because it's about how terrifying it would be if the undead abomination hunting you spoke Dutch
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 PM
driving around the Capital Region pronouncing Dutch placenames like incantations
Maybe it's a decent tour of the less famous reduplicated placenames... Boston to New York, but it's the ones in Lincolnshire, sort of thing.
November 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Maybe it's a decent tour of the less famous reduplicated placenames... Boston to New York, but it's the ones in Lincolnshire, sort of thing.
📑📖Word of the Week: 'Chenoterie' French meaning 'oak clearing'. The original place name for Noctorum, Wirral. First recorded in the Domesday Book and used ever since 🌳🌳🌳https://prehistoricwirral.com/noctorum.html #Wirral #History #Heritage #placenames #Noctorum #Chenoterie #Domesday
November 4, 2025 at 7:43 AM
📑📖Word of the Week: 'Chenoterie' French meaning 'oak clearing'. The original place name for Noctorum, Wirral. First recorded in the Domesday Book and used ever since 🌳🌳🌳https://prehistoricwirral.com/noctorum.html #Wirral #History #Heritage #placenames #Noctorum #Chenoterie #Domesday
Never say the English aren't inventive with our placenames. Gardeners Garden, Shoreditch, London (Ogilby & Morgan map, 1676). 🗃️ www.layersoflondon.org/map/overlays...
November 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Never say the English aren't inventive with our placenames. Gardeners Garden, Shoreditch, London (Ogilby & Morgan map, 1676). 🗃️ www.layersoflondon.org/map/overlays...
But who’d do French placenames with Finnish spelling
What it would look like if Finnish followed French orthography.
As someone who probably still goes as Mrs. Yanne in some French records, this somehow breaks my brain :D.
(BTW still bigly mad that literary Finnish wasn't codified based on Savo dialect. It would've been gloriously silly.)
As someone who probably still goes as Mrs. Yanne in some French records, this somehow breaks my brain :D.
(BTW still bigly mad that literary Finnish wasn't codified based on Savo dialect. It would've been gloriously silly.)
October 31, 2025 at 4:35 PM
But who’d do French placenames with Finnish spelling
We’ve spun a 🕸️ web map 🕸️ of haunted placenames here: maptiler.link/48TD6EK
#Halloween #Cartography #SpookyMaps #WebMaps
#Halloween #Cartography #SpookyMaps #WebMaps
Halloween map
Spooky Halloween map with custom icons for the scariest names.
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October 31, 2025 at 4:05 PM
We’ve spun a 🕸️ web map 🕸️ of haunted placenames here: maptiler.link/48TD6EK
#Halloween #Cartography #SpookyMaps #WebMaps
#Halloween #Cartography #SpookyMaps #WebMaps
Mapa Gàidhlig na Seachdaine
Baile Obar Dheathain ~ Aberdeen
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#AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic #Maps
Baile Obar Dheathain ~ Aberdeen
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#AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic #Maps
October 31, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Mapa Gàidhlig na Seachdaine
Baile Obar Dheathain ~ Aberdeen
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#AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic #Maps
Baile Obar Dheathain ~ Aberdeen
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#AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic #Maps
With Oireachtas na Gaeilge taking place in Belfast this week, the Placenames Branch has looked at the topic of the placename Béal Feirste.
To find out more about the origins of the name visit https://loom.ly/4lPtS-U
To find out more about the origins of the name visit https://loom.ly/4lPtS-U
October 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
With Oireachtas na Gaeilge taking place in Belfast this week, the Placenames Branch has looked at the topic of the placename Béal Feirste.
To find out more about the origins of the name visit https://loom.ly/4lPtS-U
To find out more about the origins of the name visit https://loom.ly/4lPtS-U
Very excited to be chatting with @drmjwarren.bsky.social about his wonderful book THE CUCKOO'S LEA, on 13th November in Crediton - we'll be discussing lost species remembered in placenames, rekindling wonder, & spirits of place.
Get tickets here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/cre...
Get tickets here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/cre...
October 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Very excited to be chatting with @drmjwarren.bsky.social about his wonderful book THE CUCKOO'S LEA, on 13th November in Crediton - we'll be discussing lost species remembered in placenames, rekindling wonder, & spirits of place.
Get tickets here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/cre...
Get tickets here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/cre...
Hey, @ghostofagony.bsky.social
The top pic from our deck.
People call it Mt. Si, but to the Snoqualmie People he is called qʷalbc and is a hugely important historical and cultural site.
#indigenous #placenames
#twinpeaks #Snoqualmie
The top pic from our deck.
People call it Mt. Si, but to the Snoqualmie People he is called qʷalbc and is a hugely important historical and cultural site.
#indigenous #placenames
#twinpeaks #Snoqualmie
October 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Hey, @ghostofagony.bsky.social
The top pic from our deck.
People call it Mt. Si, but to the Snoqualmie People he is called qʷalbc and is a hugely important historical and cultural site.
#indigenous #placenames
#twinpeaks #Snoqualmie
The top pic from our deck.
People call it Mt. Si, but to the Snoqualmie People he is called qʷalbc and is a hugely important historical and cultural site.
#indigenous #placenames
#twinpeaks #Snoqualmie
Ainm-àite na Seachdaine
Strathpeffer ~ Stath Pheofhair 'valley of the river Peffery'
NH482582
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#AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic#CoilltearachdagusFearannAlba #ForestryandLandScotland
Strathpeffer ~ Stath Pheofhair 'valley of the river Peffery'
NH482582
buff.ly/vSAsLs6
#AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic#CoilltearachdagusFearannAlba #ForestryandLandScotland
October 27, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Ainm-àite na Seachdaine
Strathpeffer ~ Stath Pheofhair 'valley of the river Peffery'
NH482582
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#AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic#CoilltearachdagusFearannAlba #ForestryandLandScotland
Strathpeffer ~ Stath Pheofhair 'valley of the river Peffery'
NH482582
buff.ly/vSAsLs6
#AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic#CoilltearachdagusFearannAlba #ForestryandLandScotland
Mapa Gàidhlig na Seachdaine
NàdarAlba ~ NatureScot
Tèarmainn Nàdair Nàiseanta ~ National Nature Reserves
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#AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic #Maps #NatureScot
NàdarAlba ~ NatureScot
Tèarmainn Nàdair Nàiseanta ~ National Nature Reserves
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#AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic #Maps #NatureScot
October 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Mapa Gàidhlig na Seachdaine
NàdarAlba ~ NatureScot
Tèarmainn Nàdair Nàiseanta ~ National Nature Reserves
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#AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic #Maps #NatureScot
NàdarAlba ~ NatureScot
Tèarmainn Nàdair Nàiseanta ~ National Nature Reserves
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#AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic #Maps #NatureScot
Great listen - 61,000 townlands mapped a project to It was a project of great technical ambition, the politics, the placenames, and the legacy the OS left behind.
Now the current project to locate and protect benchmarks.
#SpeirGhorm
#RTEradio1
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Now the current project to locate and protect benchmarks.
#SpeirGhorm
#RTEradio1
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
The History Show Sunday 19 October 2025
The Ordnance Survey in Ireland
On this week's programme, we’re looking back at the early years of the Ordnance Survey in Ireland. Just over 200 years ago, the British government launched one of the ...
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October 23, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Great listen - 61,000 townlands mapped a project to It was a project of great technical ambition, the politics, the placenames, and the legacy the OS left behind.
Now the current project to locate and protect benchmarks.
#SpeirGhorm
#RTEradio1
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Now the current project to locate and protect benchmarks.
#SpeirGhorm
#RTEradio1
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
An Chailleach is the archetype of the old wise woman, Grandmother to all and queen of the dark half of the year. Her name appears in various placenames, including special sacred sites such as Sliabh na Calliagh, 'the hill of the veiled one'
Read more at LetsLearnIrish.com/articles/anchailleach/
Read more at LetsLearnIrish.com/articles/anchailleach/
October 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
An Chailleach is the archetype of the old wise woman, Grandmother to all and queen of the dark half of the year. Her name appears in various placenames, including special sacred sites such as Sliabh na Calliagh, 'the hill of the veiled one'
Read more at LetsLearnIrish.com/articles/anchailleach/
Read more at LetsLearnIrish.com/articles/anchailleach/
... Nonetheless, we love the Poles and they have placenames everywhere in our wide brown land. Not least the Strzelecki Track, and one of Australia's absolute top comedic characters shares that name.
a fat man is sitting on a couch with his eyes closed and a blue shirt on .
Alt: Australian actor Magda Szubanski in her famous Sharon Strezlecki role, crying.
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October 23, 2025 at 12:44 AM
... Nonetheless, we love the Poles and they have placenames everywhere in our wide brown land. Not least the Strzelecki Track, and one of Australia's absolute top comedic characters shares that name.
Lexington, KT, Chicago, Portland, Anchorage, Fairbanks.
Nome, shishmsref, Deering, Quartz Creek
Kotzebue, Kivalina, Noatak, Kiana
Iguchak and Baldwin aren’t airports, just placenames.
Nome, shishmsref, Deering, Quartz Creek
Kotzebue, Kivalina, Noatak, Kiana
Iguchak and Baldwin aren’t airports, just placenames.
October 22, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Lexington, KT, Chicago, Portland, Anchorage, Fairbanks.
Nome, shishmsref, Deering, Quartz Creek
Kotzebue, Kivalina, Noatak, Kiana
Iguchak and Baldwin aren’t airports, just placenames.
Nome, shishmsref, Deering, Quartz Creek
Kotzebue, Kivalina, Noatak, Kiana
Iguchak and Baldwin aren’t airports, just placenames.