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<p align=center><b>Welcome to Susan Laflin's Web Page on Name Studies</b></p>

<p align=justify> Since retiring, I have completed an MA in English Local History, which was 
awarded in July 2001, and the dissertation title 
was <a href="http://www.suelaflin.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/NameStudies/MA.html">Shropshire Place-Names ending in "-ford".</a> 
I have continued my studies in the place-names and local history of 
Shropshire and some results of my research may be seen here. <br>
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In 2002, my paper on <a href="http://www.suelaflin.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/NameStudies/RomanRoads.pdf">"Roman Roads and Ford Place-Names 
in Shropshire"</a> was published in the Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological 
and Historical Society. <br>
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In 2003, a paper entitled <a href="http://www.suelaflin.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/NameStudies/Ingas.pdf">"Do -ingas Place-Names 
occur in pairs?"</a> was published in the Journal of the English Place-Name 
Society. <br>
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I am also continuing with my study of Ford Place Names and the information will 
be made available online in due course.<br>
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My one-name studies of Preen and Laflin also include an interest in the 
origins of these names. <a href="http://www.suelaflin.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/NameStudies/Laflin.html">LAFLIN<a> is probably an 
Irish name referring to Norwegian immigrants who moved to Suffolk around 
1400 and have been there ever since. <a href="http://www.suelaflin.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/NameStudies/Preen.html">PREEN</a> is probably 
a locative surname, derived from the Domesday manor of Prene in Shropshire, which 
lies in Ape Dale just north of Wenlock Edge. 
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<p align=center><font size=2><i> Page maintained by Susan Laflin.</i> <br>
Last updated September 2009</font> </p>

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