The Place-Names of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Part II : The Wapentakes of Osgoldcross and Agbrigg (English Place-Name Society Volume XXXI)
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xii, 322pp, complete with fold out map at rear showing the Wapentakes of the West Riding of Yorkshire. In blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine (boards just a little rounded and worn at spine tips). Faint library stamp on upper text block edge, cataloguing numbers on copyright page. Small paper scar on front free endpaper. Else generally neat and clean internally barring a hint of toning. In its original dust jacket (very slightly rubbed at edges, mildly sunned spine). The second volume of an eight volume set resulting from the largest county survey undertaken to date by the English Place-Name Society, this present volume deals with the place-names of the southern side of the lower Aire Valley and of those westward in the mountainous country of the Colne Valley, the principal towns beingd