H. D. G. Foxall, Shropshire Field-Names, 1980, ISBN 0 9501227 3 4. 98 pp.  This is a comprehensive study of the origins and meanings of Shropshire field-names.  The author deals with such issues as field types and sizes, shapes, configurations, geographical positions, and the conditions of the soil, before launching into the largest part of the book, a treatment of the origins of field-names under twenty-one headings, such as woodland names, farm crops, industry, birds, legal, sports and pastimes.  The book concludes with a name index and a parish index.

Copies of Foxall’s field-name maps, based on the mid-19th century Tithe Award maps, can be viewed at Shropshire Archives.