Bird place-name of the day 137 in my crane mini series is CRANHAM (Glos), OE cran + ham. ‘Crane homestead/farm’. #PlaceNames #birdsandplace #naturewriting
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A jackdaw perched upon a fence post.
Cavil, East Yorkshire. Cafeld 959, Cheuede 1086. ‘Open land frequented by jackdaws’. Old English *cā + feld. Source: Oxford Dictionary of British #PlaceNames. 📸Stuutje1979 #medievalsky
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Dancing cranes
OS map showing district of Cranbrook in Ilford, London.
Thought I’d do a mini series on the crane for a bit, after yesterday’s offering. Bird place-name of the day 136 is CRANBROOK, not the one in Kent where my book #thecuckooslea begins, but in London. Hard to believe now! OE cran + burna. ‘Cranes’ stream’. #PlaceNames #birdsandplace #naturewriting
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Mapa Gàidhlig na Seachdaine
Sruighlea ~ Stirling
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#AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic #Maps
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Common crane
OS map showing Dorset village of Cranborne.
Because I won’t be too far from here next weekend, bird place-name of the day 135 is CRANBORNE (Dor). OE cran + burna. ‘Cranes’ stream’. #PlaceNames #birdsandplace #naturewriting
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Eileamaid na seachdaine
Cùil "secluded spot; nook"
Thoir dhuinn ainm cùile a tha a' còrdadh ribh!
#AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic
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Ainm-àite na Seachdaine
Ardessie ~ Àird Easaidh 'the promontory of Essie (the waterfall place)'
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Perched great Tit
OS map showing Herefordshire village of Titley.
Back to birds. The sound of so many great tits in song this week it sounds like the air itself needs oiling made me think place-name of the day 134 should be TITLEY (Heref.) Possibly OE *titta + leah. ‘Tit wood/clearing’. #PlaceNames #birdsandplace #naturewriting
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Mapa Gàidhlig na Seachdaine
Lodainn an Ear ~ East Lothian
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#AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic #Maps
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Eileamaid na seachdaine
Tulach "green hill; long low ridge"
Thoir dhuinn ainm tulaich a tha a' còrdadh ribh!
#AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic
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Page from British Wildlife mag.
Front cover of British Wildlife mag, vol 37.4 (Feb 2026).
If you subscribe to the brilliant @britishwildlife.bsky.social mag, you’ll find an article about birds in place-names in there this month. Right before @amyjanebeer.bsky.social’s always beautiful Wild Story column. #BritishWildlife #PlaceNames #birdsandplace
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Ainm-àite na Seachdaine
Lag nan Eala ~ Lag nan Eala 'the hollow of the swans'
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Seachdain na Gàidhlig
Ainmean-àite ann an abairtean Gàidhlig
"Cho glas ri càl Obar Dheathain"
"As green as Aberdeen cabbage"
Obar Dheathain
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#AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic #SeachdainNaGàidhlig2026 #SnG2026 #CleachdINoCaillI
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Marwick says what I expected - black land (same name in Walls and Sandwick). Walls Swartland was part of Greenquoy/North Seatter until the farm was divided between two brothers in 1800s. #Orkney #Placenames #NorthWallsAndBrims
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…Swartland just above where the "Warebrack” comes in would have got it's name from just that "Swarts" being the name for the bigger Tangles that find there wae to the beaches following such heavy seas” Interested to know if this derivation is correct #Placenames #Orkney #2/2
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Found in old emails in reference to the farm Swartland #NorthWallsAndBrims #Orkney #Placenames “that was the peedie stones that came with the waere these stones hold the heat from the sun and helps young shoots to grow in spring…. (continued in next post) 1/2
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Bidh an òraid seo air loidhne aig sia uairean a-nochd
#AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic #SeachdainNaGàidhlig2026 #SnG2026 #CleachdINoCaillI
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Latha nan Lèintean-T Gàidhlig 2026
Tha aodach Gàidhlig oirnne an-diugh!
#AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic #SeachdainNaGàidhlig2026 #SnG2026 #CleachdINoCaillI #sabhalmorostaig # LnLTGàidhlig
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Seachdain na Gàidhlig
Ainmean-àite ann an abairtean Gàidhlig
"Fiodh gu Loch Abar"
"Wood to Lochaber"
Loch Abar
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Carnmoney comes from the Irish ‘Carn Monaidh’ meaning ‘cairn of the hill’. There was likely to have been a cairn - a stone pile marking a burial site - on the hilltop which could place human influence on Carnmoney Hill as far back as the Bronze Age, two thousand years ago. #placenames
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Tha bloga ùr le Ruairidh MacIlleathain ri fhaighinn air làrach-lìn NàdarAlba. Nach leugh sibh air ainmean nan Rothach?
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#AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic #NàdarAlba #NatureScot
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Seachdain na Gàidhlig
Ainmean-àite ann an abairtean Gàidhlig
"Cho bodhar ri Creig Chluaidh"
"As deaf as Dumbarton Rock"
Creag Chluaidh
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#AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic #SeachdainNaGàidhlig2026 #SnG2026 #CleachdINoCaillI
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Seachdain na Gàidhlig
Ainmean-àite ann an abairtean Gàidhlig
"Bho Pheairt gu Hiort"
"From Perth to St Kilda"
Peairt
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Hiort
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#AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic #SeachdainNaGàidhlig2026 #SnG2026 #CleachdINoCaillI
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A stretch of the stream spanned by a stone bridge.
Caldbeck, Cumbria. Caldebek 11thC. ‘Cold stream’. Old Scandinavian kaldr + bekkr. Source: Oxford Dictionary of British #PlaceNames. 📸Les Hull #medievalsky
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House mouse
OS map showing Devon village of Musbury.
Another animal infestation! Place-name of the day 133 is MUSBURY (Devon). OE mus +burh, ‘mouse-infested fort’. I love names like this where you can really sense a story—a tale of exasperation in this case, presumably! #PlaceNameOfTheDay #PlaceNames #naturewriting
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Mapa Gàidhlig na Seachdaine
Iomairt na h-Alba ~ Scottish Enterprise
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#AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic #Maps #IomairtnahAlba #ScottishEnterprise
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Midge swarm in Scotland
OS map showing W. Yorkshire village of Midgley.
Place-name of the day 132 is MIDGLEY (W. Yorks). One of those that means exactly what it seems: OE mycg + leah, ‘midge wood/clearing’. #PlaceNameOfTheDay #PlaceNames #naturewriting
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Eileamaid na seachdaine
Linn "pool; pond; firth"
Thoir dhuinn ainm linne a tha a' còrdadh ribh!
#AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic
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My mountain hare
My finger tracks next to the prints of a mountain hare (and its dropping).
OS map showing Carn nan Gearran Bana, west of Inverness.
Spent time with winter-white mountain hares in the Highlands yesterday, so place-name of the day 131 is Càrn nan Gearran Bàna (Inverness-shire). Scots Gaelic, ‘hill of the white hares’. #PlaceNameOfTheDay #PlaceNames #naturewriting
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Archaeoethnologica: Hǫrgr, Sacred & Passage Places / Hǫrgr, Lugares Sagrados e de Passagem
+INFO in: archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2026/02/horg...
#Archaeology #ArchaeologyofReligion #Scandinavia #Linguistics #placenames #sanctuaries #HistoryofReligions #boundaries #germans #books #openaccess
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