34 DERBYSHIRE PLACE-NAMES. 



In the following glossary, I have not made any distinction 

 between the several dialects of the Celtic family of languages, 

 and I have comprised under the general term Norse, the Scandi- 

 navian and all dialects of a cognate origin. 



In making this attempt — the occupation of leisure moments — 

 to analyze, and interpret the signification of, local names in 

 Derbyshire, I am fully conscious of the difficulty of the task. 

 Perhaps no branch of literature is so beset with pitfalls as 

 etymology, and doubtless I have fallen into many. 



Those who have an intimate knowledge of the original 

 languages — to which I have no pretensions — will be able to 

 correct my errors ; and for all corrections I shall be extremely 

 grateful. If any member of the Derbyshire Archaeological 

 Society — with a wider and more accurate knowledge of the 

 physical conditions and local features of the county, and riper 

 judgment and greater penetration than I possess — should be led 

 by the publication of my researches in this journal, to give to 

 this greatly neglected, though most interesting branch of philo- 

 logy, that careful investigation its importance deserves, my labours 

 will not have proved fruitless. 



I give below a list of Works consulted, all of which I have 

 freely used. 



WORKS CONSULTED. 



Camden's "Britannia." Edited by Gough. 



" Codex Diplomaticus JEvi Saxonici." Edited by Professor Kemble. 



Kemble's " Saxons in England." 



N. Leo's "Local Nomenclature of the Anglo-Saxons." 



Bosworth's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. 



The "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle." 



Bede's " Ecclesiastical History." 



" Six Old English Chronicles." 



Pritchard's " Eastern Origin of the Celtic Nations." 



Latham's " Ethnology of the British Islands." 



Latham's Dictionary of the English Language. 



Wright's "Celt, Roman, and Saxon." 



Wright's "Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English." 



Taylor's " Words and Places." 



