ATTRIBUTES as SPECIFIC | OCCURRENCES | ATTRIBUTES as GENERIC | OCCURRENCES |
personal | 129 | personal | 0 |
natural feature | 54 | natural feature | 275 |
man-made feature | 38 | man-made feature | 41 |
adjective | 158 | adjective | 5 |
plant | 73 | plant | 8 |
animal | 40 | animal | 0 |
folk name | 72 | folk name | 25 |
habitation | 5 | habitation | 215 |
TOTAL | 569 | TOTAL | 569 |
The table gives the number of times each attribute is used as a specific and as a generic
in the place names shown in the Ordnance Survey Grid Square TL
The sample size is 569 names.
Attributes of generic name elements
Words for habitations and for natural features preponderate as generic name elements. Names formed with a natural feature word as a generic element may not have been given initially as the names of settlements.