LINGUOCULTUROLOGICAL APPROACH TO STUDYING TOMONYMS OF THE UK

Abstract

This article examines British proper place names using the example of the tomonymic system of England. Its analysis reveals the main toponymic layers related to different historical epochs, peoples and languages, and also testifies to the natural features of the territory. The author concludes that toponyms function not only as landmarks of the area, created by nature and as a result of human creative activity, but also as cultural, historical and social formations, testifying to the time of the development of the territory and the various peoples who inhabited it.