by Barrie Cox
This book is a guide to the place-names of Leicestershire and Rutland from the earliest times to the twentieth century. It is based on many years' research into the place-names and combines detailed and authoritative commentary on the names with a unique knowledge of the setting, languages and history which gave rise to them. It will prove absorbing reading and an important resource for anyone interested in the past of the counties and the origins of their names.
Barrie Cox is editor of the EPNS surveys of Leicestershire (8 vols) and Rutland.
Published 2005. ISBN 0 904889 70 X. Paperback.
