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SNSBI 2011 Canterbury meeting (University of Kent, April 15–18)

This meeting was organised by Paul Cullen.

Friday 15 April

Dr Andrew Richardson: The Kingdom of Kent

Saturday 16 April

Dr Oliver Padel: Britonnic place-name generics, secular and ecclesiastical
Dr Ann Cole: Between Peutinger and Gough: can place-names fill the gap?
Dr George Redmonds: Surnames and place-names in the Yorkshire Dales
Dr John Baker: Place-names and Anglo-Saxon assembly sites
Sheila Young: The eternal ascent: an exploratory treatise of mountain route names
Dr Tania Styles: Place-names as evidence in the OED
Visit to Canterbury Cathedral
Terhi Nurminen: Hill-terms in the place-names of the historical counties of Northumberland and Durham
Dr Simon Draper: Place-names and Anglo-Saxon estates
Prof. Thomas Clancy: At St Meddan’s convenience: Scottish hagio-toponyms and their challenges
Peter Kitson: The chronology of river-names

Sunday 17 April

Annual General Meeting
Prof. Hywel Wyn Owen: Towards a place-name society for Wales
Graham Collis: Little England beyond Calais – the Anglo-Saxons and Angles and Saxons on the Continent
Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh: Place-names and family identity in Anne Clifford’s “Great Book of Record”
Prof. John Insley: Anglo-Saxons beyond the narrow seas: two sets of onomastic evidence for Englishmen in the Carolingian empire
Dr Shaun Tyas: Friar Tuck: the names, the men, the legends
John Freeman: Scandinavian name-material in Herefordshire
Dr Paul Cullen: Excursion to Richborough and Sandwich
Peter McClure, Dr Simon Draper and Dr Paul Cullen: Project Report: Family Names of the United Kingdom (FaNUK) update
Dr Duncan Probert: Project Report: Profile of a Doomed Elite: The Structure of English Landed Society in 1066
Dónall Mac Giolla Easpaig and Mairead Nic Lochlainn: Project Report: The Placenames Database of Ireland
Prof. Carole Hough: Scots words and place-names
Ellen Bramwell: PhD Report: A comparative study of personal naming

Photos

Excursions to Canterbury on Saturday 16th April 2011, and to Richborough and Sandwich on Sunday 17th April 2011. Photo page originally created by Susan Laflin April 2011.

afterwards we wandered round, visiting other sights such as the gateway and clock in the streets of Canterbury.

On Saturday we took the bus into Canterbury and made our way through the arcade to the “green Jesus” on the cathedral wall.

We entered the cathedral as a pre-paid group and waited there.

Inside Dr Mark bateson showed us the cathedral archives

On Sunday, we all got onto the coach and went to visit the Roman fort at Richborough.

The first picture is a general view and the next shows Paul Cullen talking to some of the group.

Another view of the surviving walls of the fort

and some of the buildings associated with the latest phase of the fort

The second part of this excursion was a visit to Sandwich. Those who were quick enough managed to find tea shops which had not yet shut. Others walked around among the narrow streets.

“No-name Street” was an unusual one. The street was very short, containing only the one shop.

We returned to the square in good time to meet the coach. It was originally the market square. The church may also be seen in the background.

The final picture showns members of the group waiting in the square to board the coach on our homeward journey.