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PUBLISHER: Steve Savage
ISBN: 9781904246060
PAGES: 608 p.
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The Place Names Of Edinburgh
An introduction giving a historical overview is followed by detailed entries on thousands of places within the modern city of Edinburgh. This work is about names old and new – the names of every modern street as well as those given to places and hills and rivers over the past 20 centuries and more.
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