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ESSEX is generally reputed to be the one county of England which has best preserved among its peasantry the traditional outlook of an earlier day, just as its buildings are richer in characteristic examples of early styles of domestic architecture. The impression of a certain remoteness which compels attention outside the urban areas is intensified by a flavour, an archaic quality, in the names of its smaller towns and villages, which seem to recall more insistently than elsewhere a countryside which was part of a social order based on church and manor very different from that of the twentieth century.
The Place-Names of Essex
By P. H. Reaney. (English Place-Name Society, Vol. 12.) Pp. lxii + 698. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1935.) 25s. net.
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The Place-Names of Essex. Nature 136, 737–738 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136737a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136737a0
