The First American Placename in England: Pimlico
Abstract The London placename Pimlico, hitherto of obscure origin, is plausibly shown to have been copied from America and to be linked with Sir Walter Raleigh's abortive Roanoke settlements of the 1580s. Its place in the cultural contexts of Elizabethan Virginia and Jacobean north London is ex...
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University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
1995-09-01
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| Series: | Names |
| Online Access: | http://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/view/1439 |