Names for Battlesites, Villages, Cities (English naming)

Regardless of whether you are on campaign for an entire planet, passing through a small village, or having a skirmish in the suburbs of a town: places have names.  Naming the site of your battle, or roleplaying game region gives the narrative strength.

This blog has previously published some latin names for both Death Guard and Thousand Sons, but today, I wanted to tackle a method for generating some English sounding names for villages and towns that might be player in. I might try some planet names at a later date. These names are derived from places that I know, and adapted from the British toponymy wikipedia entry so as to exclude some (but by no means all!) of the more famous possibilities.

There are four elements.  Two main elements that constitute the name (element one and element two) that should be run together. There are then optional prefixes and suffixes that you're welcome to add and append to taste.

Element One	Element Two
Ash	bridge
Balla	bourne
Bell	by
Black	dale
Bright	donn
Broom	field
Burn	firth
Cross	ford
Exe	gate
Finch	haven
Frank	head
Grass	land
Hes	law
Holly	lock
Inch	mere
Ingle	mouth
Ink	pool
Kirk	rigg
Knock	stage
Lang	thwaite
New	tree
Park	toft
Peyn	ton
Pitt	vine
Shin	wall
Thorn	ward
Threl	way
Up	wood
White	worth
Win	wych

Prefixes	Suffixes & Interfixes
Castle	Court
East	Dale
Glen	Desert
Great	Bank
King's	Fields
Little	Green
Lower	Hill
Mount	Park
North	Plains
Queen's	Way
Royal	-by-the-Sea
Saint	-in-(Generate an additional two elements as above)
South	-on-(Generate an additional two elements as above)
Upper	-under-(Generate an additional two elements as above)
West	-upon-(Generate an additional two elements as above)

Try generating a few and let me know if you like it.  Here's some of mine that I generated:

Ashvine Fields
South Brighttree
Kirkgate
Finchead-under-Peynton
Winlaw

Overall, they are pleasing to my ear and certainly have that British feeling to them.