Right!
The origin of every English city's name.
There are 55 of them… That's quite a lot.
So let's get cracking.
Welcome to another RobWords.
First some quick context: England's place names are a product of England's history.
They've been influenced by - in order -the Celtic Britons who were around from the Iron Age, the Romans who spent a few centuries there, the Anglo Saxons who came after them, the Vikings who took control of a massive chunk of England, and then William the Conqueror's Normans.
Throw in some Christianity and a millennium of lazy pronunciation and mishearings and you get to the place names we have today.
Now we're just going to look at the cities, because we would be here all day otherwise.
Contrary to popular belief, there are no specific criteria for a place in England to be designated a city.
