GB1900: Engaging the Public in Very Large Scale Gazetteer Construction from the Ordnance Survey “County Series” 1:10,560 Mapping of Great Britain

摘要

This article is about the project, and the process of user-engagement, rather than about the results: the project remains very much in progress, with coverage of England and Scotland far from complete. However, Fig. 6 is essentially a result from the earlier Welsh work and shows how the project is starting to fulfill the original goal of creating a Welsh equivalent to the Survey of English Place Names. In Welsh, both "hafod" and "lluest" refer to summer pastures, whilst "pentre(f)" in modern standard Welsh generally means a village, although in some areas it is known to refer to substantial farms and perhaps this meaning was more prevalent across Wales at an earlier date. Figure 6 shows that "pentre" appears mainly in lowland areas while both "hafod" and "lluest" appear mainly in uplands, but the particular concentration of "lluest" in central Wales requires further investigation.