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- Publishing Information
- General Links for this Work
- Preface to the Revised Edition
- Place Names and their Meanings
- Scope and Arrangement of the Dictionary
- The Chronology and Languages of English Place Names
- Some Different Place Name Types and Structures
- Irish Place Names
- Scottish Place Names
- Welsh Place Names
- The Wider Significance of Place Names
- England
- Northern Ireland
- Republic of Ireland
- Scotland
- Wales
- The Channel Islands and Isle of Man
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- Glossary of Some Common Elements in British Place Names
- Select Bibliography for Further Reading
- Dictionary of British Place Names: Appendix of Web Links
Ratcliffe
- Source:
- A Dictionary of British Place Names
- Author(s):
A. D. Mills
Ratcliffe,
‘red cliff or bank’, OE rēad + clif: Ratcliffe Culey Leics. Redeclive 1086 (db). Manorial affix from the de Culy family, here in the 13th cent. Ratcliffe on Soar Notts. Radeclive 1086 (db). For the river-name, see Barrow upon Soar. Ratcliffe on the Wreake Leics. Radeclive 1086 (db). For the river-name, see Frisby on the Wreake.
- Publishing Information
- General Links for this Work
- Preface to the Revised Edition
- Place Names and their Meanings
- Scope and Arrangement of the Dictionary
- The Chronology and Languages of English Place Names
- Some Different Place Name Types and Structures
- Irish Place Names
- Scottish Place Names
- Welsh Place Names
- The Wider Significance of Place Names
- England
- Northern Ireland
- Republic of Ireland
- Scotland
- Wales
- The Channel Islands and Isle of Man
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- Glossary of Some Common Elements in British Place Names
- Select Bibliography for Further Reading
- Dictionary of British Place Names: Appendix of Web Links
