SHROPSHIRE PLACE-NAMES AND CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

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 go to the introduction, or to read each chapter and find out more about medieval and early modern Shropshire!

Place-Names that sound funny

Dirty places

Place-Names that tell us about magical creatures

Place-names featuring castles and strongholds

Place-Names that tell us about people

Places for getting together

Place-Names that sound scary

Place-Names that tell us about animals and birds

Place-Names that tell us about the languages used in Shropshire

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

Words by

Susan Kilby

original artwork by Ione Beau Jones*

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*additional artwork from