Resources

Bibliography (suggested reading list)

Scotland County-by-County

Scottish Place-Name News archive

SPNS Logo  Older Notes from the newsletters to 2008
 Older Notes from the newsletters to 2005
 Older Notes from the newsletters to 2003
 Older Notes from the newsletters to 2002
 Older Notes from the newsletters to 1999


BLITON 'Brittonic Language in the Old North'
Database of Alan James' research notes on the history of Brittonic in southern Scotland and northern England as reflected in place-name elements. (In progress: more soon!)

Index of Celtic and Other Elements in W.J.Watson's 'The History of the Celtic Place-names of Scotland'

W.J. Watson 'Surveys' of 
Ayrshire and Strathclyde 
Dumfries and Galloway
Lothian
Scotland North of Forth

Lexicon of Proto-Celtic

Norman Dixon: The Placenames of Midlothian

John Reid: Material for a place-name survey of East Stirlingshire download (zipped .doc file 1.7MB. Covers the parishes of Airth AIH, Denny DNY, Dunipace DPC, Falkirk FAL, Grangemouth GRM including Bothkennar BKX, Kilsyth KSY, Larbert LRB, Muiravonside MAS, and Slamannan SLM)

Berit Sandnes: From Starafjall to Starling Hill. An investigation of the formation and development of Old Norse place-names in Orkney

May Williamson: The Non-Celtic Place-Names of the Scottish Border Counties

K.J. Matthews: The Roman Place-Names of Britain

Records of the Parliaments of Scotland till 1707
This resource, with an abundance of early forms of place-names and historic contexts for them, is now online. The identification of place-names needs some refinement, and Dr Gillian Mackintosh, who is working on the project, would be grateful to be notified of any errors found.  (Gillian Mackintosh’s e-mail)