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SNSBI Twenty-third annual conference

Gregynog Hall (near Newtown), Powys, 4–7 April 2014.

The main meeting was preceded by the postgraduate workshop from 2 to 4 April.

Friday 4 April

  • Prys Morgan: Gregynog

Saturday 5 April

  • Carole Hough: Belt and braces – the body metaphor and beyond in place-names
  • Alison Burns: Ghosts, Flukes and Hungry Hills – an overview of field-names from North East Scotland
  • Richard Morgan: Montgomeryshire place-names
  • John Baker: On the place-names of Shropshire
  • Alice Crook: Oddities and ambiguities: methodological issues in the consultation of the Scottish Old Parish Registers
  • Aengus Finnegan: Feighery, a Co. Offaly surname
  • Graham Collis: Looking for Angles and Saxons in the Lumbres Canton
  • Paul Cullen: On some Kentish surnames
  • Report from postgraduate workshop
  • Peter Kitson: Old English main road-names

Sunday 6 April

  • Annual General Meeting
  • Project reports: (1) John and Sheila Rowlands: From patronymics to settled surnames in Wales: aspects and influences on transition, (2) Angharad Fychan: Golwg ar rai o’r enwau lleoedd y Canolbarth (Some place-names from mid-Wales)
  • Coach excursion to Clun, Shropshire
  • Thomas Owen Clancy: Saints in the Scottish landscape