A Children's Guide to Shropshire Place-Names
Join Wulfwynn, an Anglo-Saxon Wise-woman from Lurkenhope in south-west Shropshire, as she guides us around some of Shropshire's exciting place-names!
click on the links below to read each chapter and find out more about medieval and early modern Shropshire!
These pages are still under construction! Check back for further updates...
Places for getting together
Place-Names that sound scary
Place-Names that tell us about animals and birds
Place-Names that tell us about what people did
Look-out places
Place-Names that tell us about industry
Place-Names that tell us about farming
Place-Names that tell us how people moved around
With huge thanks to Ione Jones, our illustrator