A talk by Alan Crosby.
Place-names are a vital source of historical evidence about landscape and settlement in the 1500 years from the Roman period to the early Middle Ages. The languages in which they were coined, and their hidden or specialised meanings, reveal so much about how our distant forebears saw and identified their world. This talk looks at how familiar and unfamiliar place-names shed light on the landscape of Lancashire a millennium ago, and how people at the time settled and exploited it.
Alan Crosby is one of Britain’s leading local historians. He is the main local history contributor to the BBC Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine, and since 2001 has been the editor of The Local Historian, the only national journal for local history. He lives in Preston and for over thirty years has been researching, writing, publishing and lecturing on many aspects of the history of Lancashire and North West England.
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