Tag: Celtic
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Avon means river: the oldest words in the British landscape
England’s towns have English names, but 37 of its 60 biggest rivers kept names older than English. I mapped every named river and stream in the UK by the words in their names, from the ancient Avons and Esks to the Viking beck line.
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-ton, -by, llan- and bally-: what your town’s name is made of
I tagged 105,532 place names in Britain and Ireland by the English, Norse, Latin, Welsh and Gaelic words inside them, and checked Irish spellings against their official Irish forms. Kil- is a wood far more often than you might think.
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Britain in AD 500: what the ground tells us
Maps of Britain in AD 500 show neat kingdoms. I mapped what the ground can place instead: 891 pieces of evidence, a sharp east of graves and west of stones, and 24 kingdoms we can name but not draw.
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Whose Church Is It? The map of saints across Western Europe
I sorted 279,212 churches in twelve countries by their patron saint. Mary leads everywhere; then Peter, John and Martin; and Cornwall turns out to be the most varied corner of Western Europe.
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The geography of saints
I mapped the dedications of 17,116 churches across Great Britain. Mary everywhere, Andrew first in Scotland, David second in Wales, the saints of Northumbria still in their kingdom, and 98 saints found only in Cornwall.
