title: The Book of English Place Names: How Our Towns and Villages Got Their Names
author:  Caroline Taggart 
description: <div><B>Caroline Taggart</B> worked in publishing as an editor of popular non-fiction for 30 years before writing <I>I Used to Know That</I>. Her later books include <I>My Grammar and I (or should that be &#8216;Me&#8217;?) </I>and <I>Her Ladyship&#8217;s Guide to the Queen&#8217;s English</I>. As a result, she has appeared frequently on <I>BBC Breakfast </I>and on national and regional radio, talking about language, grammar, and Pythagoras' theorem.</div>
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  Copyright © 2021 by Mindy Burbidge Strunk
  
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  Publisher’s note: This is a work of fiction. Most names, places and incidents
  are a product of the author’s imagination. Locales and public names are
  sometimes used for atmospheric purposes, but any resemblance to actual people-
  living or dead, to businesses, companies, events, institutions, or locals are
  coincidental.
  
  > CONTENTS
  
  >  _Chapter 1_
  
  >  _Chapter 2_
  
  >  _Chapter 3_
  
  >  _Chapter 4_
  
  >  _Chapter 5_
  
  >  _Chapter 6_
  
  >  _Chapter 7_
  
  >  _Chapter 8_
  
  >  _Chapter 9_
  
  >  _Chapter 10_
  
  >  _Chapter 11_
  
  >  _Chapter 12_
  
  >  _Chapter 13_
  
  >  _Chapter 14_
  
  >  _Chapter 15_
  
  >  _Chapter 16_
  
  >  _Chapter 17_
  
  >  _Chapte