{"id":578,"date":"2008-10-18T17:08:56","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T16:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/year-7-history\/place-names-in-the-british-isles-what-do-they-tell-us\/"},"modified":"2008-10-18T17:09:14","modified_gmt":"2008-10-18T16:09:14","slug":"place-names-in-the-british-isles-what-do-they-tell-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/year-7-history\/place-names-in-the-british-isles-what-do-they-tell-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Place names in the British Isles – What do they tell us?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new worksheet for Year 7 History<\/a>. Students are given advice on how to spot Celtic, Roman, Norman, Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon place names, research the meaning of some of the most famous places, then plot a whole series of them on a map to try to identify meaningful patterns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new worksheet for Year 7 History. Students are given advice on how to spot Celtic, Roman, Norman, Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon place names, research the meaning of some of the most famous places, then plot a whole series of them on a map to try to identify meaningful patterns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medieval","category-year-7-history"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4503,"url":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/history-teachers\/studying-local-history-through-street-names\/","url_meta":{"origin":578,"position":0},"title":"Studying Local History through Street Names","author":"Russel Tarr","date":"September 30, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Overview The names given to our roads and streets provides a rich source of potential for local history projects. 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