Synopsis
This monograph, the first scholarly work on the topic, traces the developments in the naming of inns and taverns in all parts of the country from the fourteenth century to the present day. It is based on the publications and files of the English Place-Name Society, augmented by material in the possession of the author. An extensive collection of the names of Rutland hostelries provides an interesting separate study, and the many inn-names recorded by Pepys in the 1660s are discussed in an Appendix.