Place Names
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How place names give clues about the history of places.
Place names are a wonderful pointer and source of clues to the history of individual places, who lived in them and what they were like long ago. Information is given here on some of these clues, relating to place names of towns and villages in Wales.
From:
Made in Wales Programme 10
First broadcast
:
07 December 2001
Teachers' notes
Age Group : 7-9
Subject : History
Topic : Early Wales and Britain
Keywords : Culture and beliefs, Places, Local history
Notes : This clip could be used to support a study of place names in Wales; what clues are we given from the names? What can we discover from the names on who lived there or about the history of the place? Study local place names to look for similar clues.
