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PLACE NAMES:

MISCELLANEOUS: Nature

(a) TREES:
Trees were very good landmarks and so were adopted in place names. Added to this, in Pagan times they had great religious / symbolic meaning. The oak, for example, was King of the Forest.
OAK = 48 Oak-places:
Oakenshaw, Yorkshire; OAKFORD, Devon / Ewhurst, Surrey (Yew) / Ashbourne, Derbys. (140 Ash-places) / Ashton-under-Lyme / Aintree, Liverpool (Grand National) / Appledore, Devon and Kent / Plumstead, Norfolk  / Perivale, London / Poplar, London / Cherry Burton, Yorks / Cherry Hinton, Cambs / Hessle (Hazel), Yorkshire/

(b) PLANTS
SAFFRON = Saffron Walden, Essex / FLAX = Flax Bourton, near Bristol, Somerset / PEAS = Peasmore, Berkshire / BEAN = Benacre, Suffolk

(c) ANIMALS
BIRDS:
CROW = Cromer, Norfolk / LARK = Larksfield, Kent / HAWK = Hawkley, Hampshire / CRANE = Cranford, Northamptonshire / Cransford, Suffolk /

BEEKEEPER = Bicker, Lincs: BICKERTON, Cheshire.
HONEY = Waxholme, Yorkshire.
BEARS = Barford, Surrey
BEAVERS = Beverley, Yorkshire
CATTLE = Catford, South London where cattle crossed the Thames?
WOLF = Woolpit, Suffolk where wolves were trapped (not sheep).
SEAL = Selsey Bill, Sussex on English Channel 'like a birds bill) COW = Cowden, Holderness, Yorkshire & The Weald, Kent/Sussex.
Cowdene (or clearing) /

PIGS/SWINE = Swindon, Wiltshire / Swanland, Yorkshire / Swine, Holderness in East Yorkshire /

SHEEP = Isle of Shippey, Kent / Sheepwood, Devon / Shepherd's Bush, London

(d) MATERIALS
STONES = Staines

ODDITIES: Do you know any for my list?
Land of Nod, Holme-upon-Spalding Moor, Yorkshire.
WELLS = Tunbridge Wells etc...

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