A New Dictionary of English Field-Names (2018)

by Paul Cavill, with an introduction by Rebecca Gregory, has been published just before Christmas.

It's a substantial update of John Field's classic work, incorporating material he had collected for a second edition that never appeared, but also drawing on the hugely expanded and now digitised resources of the English Place Names Survey. A definite 'must' for every student of English place-names. Prices vary for EPNS members/ non-members, hb and pb, and are very reasonable for the sturdy hardback.

Here is profile of Dr. Paul Cavill (Assistant Professor in Early English at the University of Nottingham, Member of the Council of the English Place-Name Society).

Paul works mainly in the fields of historical language and place-name studies; he is Lecturer in Early English in the School of English at Nottingham university. He completed his PhD in 1996 and has worked with the English Place-Name Society and the Institute for Name-Studies at Nottingham for over twenty years. In that time he has edited and published eighteen volumes of the prestigious English Place-Name Survey which collects and analyses the place-names of the English counties. He now edits the Journal of the English Place-Name Society and is working on the AHRC-funded Shropshire Place-Names project (2013–2017). Alongside this he has published books and articles relating to the culture and literature of the Anglo-Saxons. Paul enjoys interdisciplinary research and is particularly interested in the interactions between place-names and historical geography including medieval settlement and land-use.