Birmingham

metropolitan borough
metropolitan borough

Birmingham (a major city and metropolitan borough of the West Midlands, England)


Caer

From Latin castrum (“camp”), via caer (“fortified city”).

Chester (a city, the county town of Cheshire, in northwest England)


Llundain

From Middle Welsh Llundein (compare Middle English Lunden), ultimately from Latin Londinium.

London (the capital city of the United Kingdom; capital city of England)


Cernyw

From Middle Welsh Kernyw, from Proto-Brythonic *Körnɨw (compare Cornish Kernow, Breton Kernev). Probably ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“head; horn”) and thus cognate with Welsh carn (“hoof”) and English horn.

cog

Cornwall (an historic and ceremonial county of England)


Bryste

Bristol (a city, county, and unitary authority in southwest England)


Lerpwl

Liverpool (a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England)


Cilgwri

Cilgwri
Gilgwri (soft)
Nghilgwri
Chilgwri

Wirral (a peninsula in England, between the River Dee and the River Mersey)


Caersallog

Caersallog
Gaersallog (soft)
Nghaersallog
Chaersallog


Caerwrangon

Caerwrangon
Gaerwrangon (soft)
Nghaerwrangon
Chaerwrangon

From caer (“fort, castle”) + Gwrangon, from Old English Weorgoran, an Anglo-Saxon tribe, via metathesis.

Worcester (a city and local government district in and the county town of Worcestershire, England).


Caerwynt

Caerwynt
Gaerwynt (soft)
Nghaerwynt
Chaerwynt


Caergaint

Caergaint
Gaergaint (soft)
Nghaergaint
Chaergaint

From caer (“fort, castle”) + Caint (“Kent”).

Canterbury (a cathedral city in Kent, England)


Caerhirfryn

Caerhirfryn
Gaerhirfryn (soft)
Nghaerhirfryn
Chaerhirfryn

caer (“castle”) + hir (“long”) + bryn (“hill”).

com

Lancaster (A city in Lancashire in north-west England)


Caint

From Brythonic *Cantio, from Proto-Celtic *kantos (“corner, rim”). Doublet of camp (“feat, sport”) and siampên (“champagne”).


Manceinion

A back-formation based on Latin Mancunium invented by William Baxter in his Glossarium Antiquitatum Britannicarum.

Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester#English

Manchester (a major city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, in northwestern England)


Rhydychen

/ˌr̥ɨːˈdəχɛn/

/r̥ɨ̞ˈdəχɛn/

/ˌr̥iːˈdəχɛn/

From rhyd + ychen, probably a calque of Old English Oxnaford, unless the latter is itself a calque of an older Brythonic name.


Caerloyw

Caerloyw
Gaerloyw (soft)
Nghaerloyw
Chaerloyw

/kaɨ̯rˈlɔɨ̯ʊ/

From caer (“fort, castle”) + gloyw (“bright”).

af

Gloucester (a city and local government district of Gloucestershire, England)


Penbedw

Penbedw
Benbedw (soft)
Mhenbedw
Phenbedw

Birkenhead, A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England.


Hafren

From Old Welsh Habren, from Proto-Brythonic *Haβren, from Proto-Celtic *Sabrinā. Compare Irish Sabhrainn.


Caerlŷr

Caerlŷr
Gaerlŷr (soft)
Nghaerlŷr
Chaerlŷr

caer (“fort, castle”) + an element derived from *Ligor, a theorised former name for the local River Soar, possibly cognate with Loire. Cf. Old English Leograceaster and medieval Latin Cair Leirion, recorded in the Historia Brittonum and possibly referring to Leicester.

Leicester (a city and unitary authority in and the county town of Leicestershire, England).


Caerfaddon

Caerfaddon
Gaerfaddon (soft)
Nghaerfaddon
Chaerfaddon

From caer (“fort, castle”) + baddon (“bath”).

Bath and North East Somerset
Bath and North East Somerset#English

Bath (a city in Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset, England)


Caergrawnt

Caergrawnt
Gaergrawnt (soft)
Nghaergrawnt
Chaergrawnt

Cambridge (a city and local government district in Cambridgeshire, England)


Caerliwelydd

Caerliwelydd
Gaerliwelydd (soft)
Nghaerliwelydd
Chaerliwelydd

/ˌkaɨ̯rlɪu̯ˈɛlɨ̞ð/

caer (“fort, castle”) + Lliwelydd, from a Proto-Brythonic from akin to Latin Luguvalium.

Carlisle (a city and local government district in and the county town of Cumbria, and formerly of Cumberland, in northwestern England)


Dyfnaint

From Middle Welsh Dyfneint, from Proto-Brythonic *Düβnėnt. Cognate with Cornish Dewnens, Breton Devnent.


Caerwysg

Caerwysg
Gaerwysg (soft)
Nghaerwysg
Chaerwysg

/kaɨ̯ˈruːɨ̯sɡ/

/kaɨ̯rˈwɨ̯ːsɡ/

From caer (“fort, castle”) + Wysg (“Exe”).

Exeter (a city and local government district, the county town of Devon, in south-west England).


Dyfrdwy

Of Brythonic origin. Equivalent to dwfr (“water”) + dwyw (“god”).


Efyrnwy

Vyrnwy (a river in Powys, Wales and Shropshire, England)


Berwig

Am aer aparawnt y mae'r hynt, am ŵr
 Ym Merwig a Chaer Wynt

c. 1509, Rhys Nanmor, (Please provide the book title or journal name); quoted in Martin Biddle & Sally Badham, edited by Martin Biddle, King Arthur's Round Table: An Archaeological Investigation, Boydell & Brewer, 2000, →ISBN, page 421:

It is about an heir apparent, about a man
 In Berwick and Winchester.


Canolbarth Lloegr

Canolbarth Lloegr
Ganolbarth Lloegr (soft)
Nghanolbarth Lloegr
Chanolbarth Lloegr

English Midlands
English Midlands#English

the English Midlands (a region of England)


Afon Merswy

Old English Mæres ēa (“boundary river”).


Glannau Merswy

Glannau Merswy
Lannau Merswy (soft)
Nglannau Merswy

glannau (“banks, shores”) + Merswy (“[River] Mersey”)

com

Merseyside (a metropolitan county in northwestern England)


Glannau Dyfrdwy

glannau (“banks, shores”) + Dyfrdwy (“River Dee”)

Deeside (a conurbation in England and Wales)


Swydd Gaerlŷr

swydd (“county, shire”) + Caerlŷr (“Leicester”)

Leicestershire (a county of East Midlands, England)


Swydd Gaerwrangon

swydd (“shire, county”) + Caerwrangon (“Worcester”)

Worcestershire (a county of West Midlands, England; capital: Worcester)


Gorllewin Canolbarth Lloegr

Gorllewin Canolbarth Lloegr
Orllewin Canolbarth Lloegr (soft)
Ngorllewin Canolbarth Lloegr

West Midlands (a county of West Midlands, England)


Swydd Rydychen

swydd (“shire, country”) + Rhydychen (“Oxford”)

Oxfordshire (An historical and ceremonial county in South-West England)


Swydd Gaer

swydd (“shire, county”) + Caer (“Chester”)

Cheshire (A county of North West England)


Dwyrain Canolbarth Lloegr

Dwyrain Canolbarth Lloegr
Ddwyrain Canolbarth Lloegr (soft)
Nwyrain Canolbarth Lloegr


Ardal y Llynnoedd

Ardal y Llynnoedd
Hardal y Llynnoedd (prothesis-h)

Lake District (a region and national park in Cumbria, north-western England)


Gogledd-orllewin Lloegr

Gogledd-orllewin Lloegr
Ogledd-orllewin Lloegr (soft)
Ngogledd-orllewin Lloegr