NIGEL SMITH, The Medieval Park of Erringden

Abstract

Place-name Society. He provides a plethora of examples from the South Pennines showing that the meanings given by A.H. Smith, who compiled the volumes for West Yorkshire which were published in the early 1960s, were often inaccurate or misleading. Knowledge of the local topography and examination of documentation often shows that there is a different origin for a name than that provided by Smith. There is no bibliography. The index is limited as the choice of entries appears rather haphazard. For example, Ilkeston, a very significant place in Nicola Verdon’s chapter, merits no entry. War Agricultural Committees appear under ‘County War Agricultural Committees’ with no cross reference, although the former is the term more likely to be looked up. There is no entry for ‘place-names’ or ‘surnames’ despite these being the subject of George Redmonds’ paper. However, this wide-ranging collection of essays provides new insights not only to local historians of the region but also more widely to those who are interested at a national level in the many topics covered.