Playing Placename Detective

The British Placenames Mapper is an interactive map which allows you to search for patterns in British placenames. The map uses ‘regular expressions’ to find defined text patterns within placenames. These text patterns could be prefixes used at the beginning of a name (eg ‘Great’ or ‘Little’), suffixes used at the end of a name (eg ‘ford’ or ‘mouth’), or even patterns that occur anywhere within a
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