This is a major new dictionary of the elements in English place‑names, edited by the research staff of the CENS/INS. It succeeds A. H. Smith’s English Place‑Name Elements (EPNS Vols. XXV, XXVI), differing from it in various ways. The range is greater: selection is not now be limited to major place-names, and elements in names first recorded before 1750 (rather than before 1500) are included. There is a much larger body of publications to draw from, including no fewer than forty more EPNS volumes than were available to Smith, together with the great quantity of research material which has appeared during the intervening years in relevant books and journals.
Three fascicles are so far available:
Á–Box, by David Parsons and Tania Styles, with Carole Hough
Brace–Cæster, by David Parsons and Tania Styles
Ceafor–Cock-pit, by David N. Parsons
ISBNs 0-9525343-5-5; 0-9525343-6-3; 0-904889-74-2
