A Pocket Guide: The Place‐Names of Wales

Normally, of course, such a title is sent straight to our expert Welsh reviewer; but this is slightly different, aimed, I suspect, as much at interested non‐Welsh‐speaking tourists such as myself as at members of the Welsh public. It is a simple non‐specialist guide and dictionary which quickly and quite easily introduces the complexities of place name studies and provides a dictionary of the names of major towns throughout Wales (“...those places which appear in larger type in the Phillips’ Great Road Atlas (1991), the scale of which is 11/2 miles to 1 inch”). Hills and rivers are excluded,...