The Place Names of Middlesex: Including Those Parts of the County of London Formerly Contained Within the Boundaries of the Old County (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

J. E. B. Gover

9780331950779: The Place Names of Middlesex: Including Those Parts of the County of London Formerly Contained Within the Boundaries of the Old County (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0331950774 ISBN 13: 9780331950779

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Originally occupying roughly the district now known as the City, it had grown very little outward at the time of the Great Fire. Even as recently as 100 years ago the town hardly extended further west than Hyde Park or further north than the present Marylebone, Euston and City roads. Now the streets are stretching further out every year, and at the present rate of advance it appears probable that the whole county will be con verted into metropolitan suburb at no distant date.

The scope of this book is to include the names of all places historically and topographically in Middlesex, but excluding the actual City names, which have been ably treated by Mr. Henry A. Harben in his Dictionary of London, published in 1918. I have, however, taken the liberty of including a few names such as Aldgate, Gracechurch, Walbrook, etc., which I consider to be proper place names and such as may be fairly in cluded in the original county of Middlesex. I have also entered many place names now extinct or vanished, considering them to be as interesting to the philologist as those still surviving, together with a few names of historical or modern origin, a consideration of which, though of little interest from a language point of view, may tend to reassure investigators, who might other wise be speculating on the chances of folk etymology in such names as Copenhagen, Maida Vale, Portobello, etc.

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