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PLACE NAMES:
R E L I G I O N
CHRISTIAN PLACE NAMES IN BRITAIN:
Celtic v. Roman Christianity. In the Middle Ages the Church owned nearly one third of the land in Britain.
Therefore, many places contain the word
CHURCH = 81 places have a Church prefix
Church Fenton, N.Yorks. /
Whitchurch (White Church) Cardiff (plus 10 more) / Churchill / Churchtown / but
many more have the word 'church' embedded within the name: Stokenchurch /
Fenchurch /
CHAPEL = 46 Chapel-places
Chapeltown, Lancs & Leeds / Chapelbridge, Cambs. /
MINSTER = only 6 Minster-places
Minteracres, Northants
BISHOP = ?
Bishopthorpe, York /
Bishop Burton, Yorkshire /
Bishop's Stortford, Herts.
ABBOT (from ABBAS = Father) = 20 Abbot/Abbey?-places
Abbotsbury, Dorset /
Milton Abbas, Dorset /
Abbess Roding, Essex
PRIORS
Alton Priors, Wiltshire /
Swaffham Prior, Cambridgeshire
PRIEST = 42 Preston-places
Preston, Lancashire /
Prestwick, Northumberland and Glasgow's Airport /
Prestbury, Gloucestershire /
MONKS / NUNS = 20 Nun-places and 38 Monk-places
Monk Bretton, Yorkshire after a Benedictine Order / Nuneaton, Warwickshire /
Nunburnholme, Yorkshire - both these sites were former nunneries
FRIARS
Friar's Hill N. Yorkshire
Hull = Whitefriargate and Blackfriargate
SAINTS = 221 Saintly-places
St.Albans /
St.Andrews /
St.Ives /
St.Neots /
GOD = 19 God-places
Godshill, IoW /
CHRIST = 10 Christ-places
Christian Malford, Wilts. /
Christchurch, Dorset (+3 more) /
Christow, Devon.
KNIGHTS TEMPLARS = 18 Temple-places
Temple Mead, Bristol Station /
Temple Normanton, Derbyshire
Temple Sowerby, Cumberland /
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