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 specific name elements
The names of persons and of natural features preponderate as specific name elements. Folk names are used with the third largest number of occurrences and probably belong to the oldest type of name.

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.