Dr Simon Taylor
- Reader (Celtic & Gaelic)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284Research interests
Research interests:
- place-names as historical and linguistic evidence
- early medieval insular history
- the cult of saints
Publications
2025
Taylor, Simon 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284, Williamson, Eila ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X and Hough, Carole ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4925-3450
(2025)
The Place-Names of Berwickshire. Volume One. The Border Parishes.
Series: The survey of Scottish place-names (9).
Shaun Tyas: Donington.
ISBN 9781915774279
2023
Whyte, Alasdair C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1256-8245, Forsyth, Katherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9057-3616 and Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2023)
Glasgow’s Gaelic Place-Names.
Birlinn.
ISBN 9781839830464
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2023)
From kestrels to foul marshes: light on a parish in the Merse c.1200.
In: Oram, Richard (ed.)
‘With Our Backs to the Ocean’: Land, Lordship, Climate Change, and Environment in the North-West European Past. Essays in Memory of Alasdair Ross.
Brepols.
ISBN 9782503596990
2021
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2021)
A tour of the North in seven languages.
In: Bevan, Gareth A., Fychan, G. Angharad, Wyn Owen, Hywel and Parry Owen, Ann (eds.)
Ar Drywydd Enwau Lleoedd: Ysgrifau i Anrhydeddu/ Essays to Honour Gwynedd O. Pierce.
Y Lolfa Cyf.: Talybont, Ceredigion, Wales.
ISBN 9781800990883
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2021)
‘Flemish’ settlement in Upper Clydesdale in the 12th and 13th centuries: the evidence of place-names.
Journal of Scottish Name Studies, 15,
pp. 32-62.
2020
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2020)
Bibliography of Scottish names studies for 2019.
Journal of Scottish Name Studies, 14(1),
pp. 176-180.
(doi: 10.36399/JSNS.014.01.08)
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284, Clancy, Thomas Owen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5976-4580, McNiven, Peter and Williamson, Eila ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2020)
The Place-Names of Clackmannanshire.
Series: The survey of Scottish place-names, VIII.
Shaun Tyas: Donington.
ISBN 9781907730863
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2020)
Coldon / Cowden – place-names: trees, coos, fuel or assembly-sites?
In: Kidd, Sheila M., Clancy, Thomas O. and Ó Maolalaigh, Roibeard (eds.)
Litreachas, Eachdraidh & Cànan: Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 7.
Celtic & Gaelic, University of Glasgow: Glasgow, pp. 398-427.
ISBN 9780903204262
Campbell, Ewan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8075-0287, Hamilton, Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823, Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284, Gondek, Meggen, Noble, Gordon and Evans, Nicholas
(2020)
A powerful place in Pictland: interdisciplinary perspectives on a power centre of the 4th to 6th centuries AD.
Medieval Archaeology, 63(1),
pp. 56-94.
(doi: 10.1080/00766097.2019.1588529)
2019
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284, MacLean, Ronald, King, Jacob and MacDonald, Mary
(2019)
Place-Names of the Aird and Strathglass, Inverness-shire (Kiltarlity: Kiltarlity Community Council).
For The Right Reasons Printing and Publishing.
ISBN 9781912270224
2018
Aitken, Brian, Hough, Carole ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4925-3450, Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284 and Williamson, Eila ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2018)
The Berwickshire Place-Name Resource.
[Website]
2017
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284 and Edmonds, Fiona
(2017)
Language and names.
In: Stringer, Keith J. and Winchester, Angus J.L. (eds.)
Northern England and Southern Scotland in the Central Middle Ages.
Boydell & Brewer: Martlesham.
ISBN 9781783272662
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284, McNiven, Peter and Williamson, Eila ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2017)
The Place-Names of Kinross-shire.
Series: Survey of Scottish place-names, 7.
Shaun Tyas.
ISBN 9781907730580
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2017)
St Vigeans: place, place-names and saints.
In: Geddes, Jane (ed.)
Hunting Picts: Medieval Sculpture at St Vigeans, Angus.
Historic Scotland: Edinburgh, pp. 38-51.
ISBN 9781849172264
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2017)
From Cinrigh Monai to Civitas Sancti Andree: a star is born.
In: Brown, Michael and Stevenson, Katie (eds.)
Medieval St Andrews: Church, Cult, City.
Series: St Andrews Studies in Scottish History.
Boydell & Brewer: Martlesham, Suffolk.
ISBN 9781783271689
2016
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2016)
Charting a course through the Scottish namescape.
In: Hough, Carole and Izdebska, Daria (eds.)
'Names and their Environment'. Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, Glasgow, 25-29 August 2014. Volume 1, Toponomastics I.
University of Glasgow: Glasgow, pp. 2-24.
ISBN 9780852619476
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2016)
Methodologies in place-name research.
In: Hough, Carole (ed.)
The Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming.
Series: Oxford handbooks in linguistics.
Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 69-86.
ISBN 9780199656431
(doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199656431.013.17)
2015
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2015)
The medieval parish in Scotland.
Journal of Scottish Name Studies, 8,
pp. 93-114.
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2015)
StronPatnaHachalas or the Oxterhill’: place-names and language-contact in the Beauly area, Inverness-shire.
Journal of Scottish Name Studies, 9,
pp. 63-82.
2014
Burns, Alison, Clancy, Thomas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5976-4580, Crawford, Barbara, Gammeltoft, Peder, Hough, Carole ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4925-3450, Hovmark, Henrik, Jakobsen, Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig, Simmons, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8278-2816 and Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2014)
Cognitive Toponymy: Project: People and Places in Synergy.
[Website]
2012
Davies, J.R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5823-4019, Sharpe, R. and Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2012)
Comforting sentences from the warming room at Inchcolm abbey.
Innes Review, 63(2),
pp. 260-266.
(doi: 10.3366/inr.2012.0041)
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284 and Markus, G.
(2012)
The Place-Names of Fife. Vol. 5, Discussions, Glossaries and Edited Texts.
Shaun Tyas: Donington, UK.
ISBN 9781907730085
2011
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2011)
Pictish place-names revisited.
In: Driscoll, S.T., Geddes, J. and Hall, M.A. (eds.)
Pictish Progress: New Studies on Northern Britain in the Early Middle Ages.
Series: The Northern World (50).
Brill: Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 67-118.
ISBN 9789004187597
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2011)
Placename studies in Scotland and the Onomasticon.
In: Murray, Kevin and Ó Riain, Pádraig (eds.)
Edmund Hogan's Onomasticon Goedelicum : Reconsiderations.
Series: Subsidiary series (23).
Irish Texts Society = Cumann na Scríbheann nGaedhilge: London, pp. 103-116.
ISBN 9781870166683
2010
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284 and Markus, G.
(2010)
The Place-Names of Fife. Vol. 4, North Fife Between Eden and Tay.
Shaun Tyas: Donington.
ISBN 9781907730061
2009
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2009)
The trenches at Falkland, Fife: a legacy of royal deer-management?
In: James, H. and Moore, P. (eds.)
Carmarthenshire and Beyond: Studies in History and Archaeology in Memory of Terry James.
Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society, pp. 235-244.
ISBN 9780906972052
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2009)
Place-names of Lesmahagow.
Journal of Scottish Name Studies, 3,
pp. 65-106.
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284 and Márkus, G.
(2009)
The Place-Names of Fife. Vol. 3, St Andrews and the East Neuk.
Shaun Tyas: Donington,.
ISBN 9781900289979
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2009)
Ayrshire Place-Names: a rich seam still to mine.
Ayrshire Notes(38),
pp. 4-18.
2008
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2008)
The toponymic landscape of the Gaelic notes in the Book of Deer.
In: Forsyth, K. (ed.)
Studies on the Book of Deer.
Four Courts Press: Dublin, Ireland, pp. 275-308.
ISBN 9781851825691
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284 and Márkus, G.
(2008)
The Place-Names of Fife. Vol. 2, Central Fife Between the Rivers Leven and Eden.
Shaun Tyas: Donington, UK.
ISBN 9781900289931
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2008)
Pilkembare and pluck the craw: verbal place-names in Scotland.
In: Padel, O.J. and Parsons, D.N. (eds.)
A Commodity of Good Names: Essays in Honour of Margaret Gelling.
Shaun Tyas: Donington.
ISBN 9781900289900
2007
Smith, B.B., Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284 and Williams, G. (Eds.)
(2007)
West over sea : studies in Scandinavian sea-borne expansion and settlement before 1300: a festschrift in honour of Dr. Barbara E. Crawford.
Series: Northern world.
Brill: Leiden.
ISBN 9789004158931
Henery, Robert and Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2007)
Pitmiclardie in Fife.
Journal of Scottish Name Studies, 1,
pp. 148-150.
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2007)
Sliabh in Scottish place-names: its meaning and chronology.
Journal of Scottish Name Studies, 1,
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2007)
Gaelic in Glasgow: the onomastic evidence.
In: Kidd, S.M. (ed.)
Glasgow: Baile Mor Nan Gaidheal: City of the Gaels.
Roinn na Ceiltis, Oilthigh Ghlaschu: Glasgow, pp. 1-19.
ISBN 9780903204231
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2007)
The rock of the Irishmen: an early place-name tale from Fife and Kinross.
In: Smith, B.B., Taylor, S. and Williams, G. (eds.)
West over Sea: Studies in Scandinavian Sea-borne Expansion and Settlement before 1300: a Festschrift in Honour of Dr. Barbara E. Crawford.
Series: Northern world (31).
Brill: Leiden, pp. 497-514.
ISBN 9789004158931
2006
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284 and Markus, G.
(2006)
The Place-Names of Fife. Vol. 1, West Fife between Leven and Forth.
Shaun Tyas: Donington.
ISBN 9781900289771
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2006)
The early history and languages of West Dunbartonshire.
In: Brown, I. (ed.)
Changing Identities, Ancient Roots: the History of West Dunbartonshire from Earliest Times.
Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 12-41.
ISBN 9780748625604
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2006)
Place-names in the historical landscape: changing land use in the Howe of Fife.
In: Woolf, A. (ed.)
Landscape and Environment in Dark Age Scotland.
Series: St. John's House papers (11).
The Committee for Dark Age Studies, University of St. Andrews: St. Andrews, pp. 75-90.
ISBN 9780951257364
2005
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2005)
The Abernethy foundation account & its place-names.
History Scotland, 5(4),
pp. 14-16.
2004
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2004)
Celtic place-names of Clackmannanshire.
History Scotland, 4(4),
pp. 13-17.
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2004)
The Anderson Century: 100 Years of Medieval Scottish Scholarship 1903-2002.
Series: Anderson memorial lecture series, 1.
The Committee for Dark-Age Studies: St Andrews.
ISBN 9780951257357
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2004)
Scandinavians in central Scotland: by-place-names and their context.
In: Williams, G. and Bibire, P. (eds.)
Sagas, Saints and Settlements.
Series: Northern world (11).
Brill: Leiden, pp. 125-145.
ISBN 9004138072
2003
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2003)
Place-names and archaeology.
History Scotland, 3(6),
pp. 50-53.
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2003)
Place-names: Lickerstane: meanings & myths.
History Scotland, 3(2),
pp. 49-52.
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284 and Crawford, B.E.
(2003)
The southern frontier of Norse settlement in north Scotland: place-names and history.
Northern Scotland, 23,
pp. 1-76.
2002
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2002)
The element 'sliabh' and the rhinns of Galloway or place-names and history: a case study.
History Scotland, 2(6),
pp. 49-52.
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2002)
Place-names and the changing landscape: the Howe of Fife, a case study.
History Scotland, 2(3),
pp. 49-51.
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2002)
Reading the map: understanding Scottish place-names.
History Scotland, 2(1),
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2002)
Stormont, the name and the place.
History Scotland, 2(5),
pp. 44-47.
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2002)
What's in a name? Norse in the islands.
History Scotland, 2(2),
pp. 42-45.
2001
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284 and Wentworth, R.
(2001)
Pont and place-names.
In: Cunningham, I.C. (ed.)
The Nation Survey'd: Essays on Late Sixteenth-Century Scotland as Depicted by Timothy Pont.
Tuckwell Press in association with National Library of Scotland: East Linton, pp. 55-76.
ISBN 9781862321984
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2001)
The cult of St Fillan in Scotland.
In: Liszka, T.R. and Walker, L.E.M. (eds.)
The North Sea World in the Middle Ages: Studies in the Cultural History of North-Western Europe.
Four Courts: Dublin, pp. 175-210.
ISBN 1851825614
2000
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2000)
Columba east of Drumalban: some aspects of the cult of Columba in eastern Scotland.
Innes Review, 51(2),
pp. 109-130.
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2000)
The coming of the Augustinians to St Andrews and version B of the St Andrews' foundation legend.
In: Taylor, S. (ed.)
Kings, Clerics and Chronicles in Scotland, 500-1297: Essays in Honour of Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson on the Occasion of her Ninetieth Birthday.
Four Courts: Dublin, pp. 115-123.
ISBN 1851825169
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2000)
Place-names of Fife.
In: Omand, D. (ed.)
The Fife Book.
Birlinn: Edinburgh, pp. 205-220.
ISBN 9781841580234
1999
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(1999)
Seventh-century Iona abbots in Scottish place names.
In: Broun, D. and Clancy, T.O. (eds.)
Spes Scotorum: Hope of Scots : Saint Columba, Iona and Scotland.
T. and T. Clark: Edinburgh, pp. 35-70.
ISBN 9780567086822
1998
Hall, D., Henderson, I. and Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(1998)
A sculptured fragment from Pittensorn Farm, Gellyburn, Perthshire.
Tayside and Fife Archaeological Journal, 4,
pp. 129-144.
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(1998)
Place-names and the early church in Scotland.
Records of the Scottish Church History Society, 28,
pp. 1-22.
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284 and Henderson, M.
(1998)
The medieval marches of Wester Kinnear, Kilmany Parish, Fife.
Tayside and Fife Archaeological Journal, 4,
pp. 232-247.
1997
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(1997)
Generic element variation, with special reference to eastern Scottish place-names.
Nomina: Journal of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland, 20,
pp. 5-22.
1996
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(1996)
Place-names and the early church in eastern Scotland.
In: Crawford, B.E. (ed.)
Scotland in Dark Age Britain.
Series: St John's House papers (6).
Scottish Cultural Press: Aberdeen, pp. 93-110.
ISBN 9781898218616
1995
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(1995)
The Scandinavians in Fife and Kinross: the onomastic evidence.
In: Crawford, B.E. (ed.)
Scandinavian Settlement in Northern Britain: Thirteen Studies of Place-names in their Historical Context.
Leicester University Press: London, pp. 141-167.
ISBN 071851923X
1994
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(1994)
Babbet and bridin pudding or polyglot Fife in the Middle Ages.
Nomina: Journal of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland, 17,
pp. 99-118.
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(1994)
Some early Scottish place-names and Queen Margaret.
Scottish Language, 13,
pp. 1-17.
Articles
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2021)
‘Flemish’ settlement in Upper Clydesdale in the 12th and 13th centuries: the evidence of place-names.
Journal of Scottish Name Studies, 15,
pp. 32-62.
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2020)
Bibliography of Scottish names studies for 2019.
Journal of Scottish Name Studies, 14(1),
pp. 176-180.
(doi: 10.36399/JSNS.014.01.08)
Campbell, Ewan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8075-0287, Hamilton, Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823, Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284, Gondek, Meggen, Noble, Gordon and Evans, Nicholas
(2020)
A powerful place in Pictland: interdisciplinary perspectives on a power centre of the 4th to 6th centuries AD.
Medieval Archaeology, 63(1),
pp. 56-94.
(doi: 10.1080/00766097.2019.1588529)
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2015)
The medieval parish in Scotland.
Journal of Scottish Name Studies, 8,
pp. 93-114.
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2015)
StronPatnaHachalas or the Oxterhill’: place-names and language-contact in the Beauly area, Inverness-shire.
Journal of Scottish Name Studies, 9,
pp. 63-82.
Davies, J.R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5823-4019, Sharpe, R. and Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2012)
Comforting sentences from the warming room at Inchcolm abbey.
Innes Review, 63(2),
pp. 260-266.
(doi: 10.3366/inr.2012.0041)
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2009)
Place-names of Lesmahagow.
Journal of Scottish Name Studies, 3,
pp. 65-106.
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2009)
Ayrshire Place-Names: a rich seam still to mine.
Ayrshire Notes(38),
pp. 4-18.
Henery, Robert and Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2007)
Pitmiclardie in Fife.
Journal of Scottish Name Studies, 1,
pp. 148-150.
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2007)
Sliabh in Scottish place-names: its meaning and chronology.
Journal of Scottish Name Studies, 1,
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2005)
The Abernethy foundation account & its place-names.
History Scotland, 5(4),
pp. 14-16.
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2004)
Celtic place-names of Clackmannanshire.
History Scotland, 4(4),
pp. 13-17.
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2003)
Place-names and archaeology.
History Scotland, 3(6),
pp. 50-53.
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2003)
Place-names: Lickerstane: meanings & myths.
History Scotland, 3(2),
pp. 49-52.
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284 and Crawford, B.E.
(2003)
The southern frontier of Norse settlement in north Scotland: place-names and history.
Northern Scotland, 23,
pp. 1-76.
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2002)
The element 'sliabh' and the rhinns of Galloway or place-names and history: a case study.
History Scotland, 2(6),
pp. 49-52.
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2002)
Place-names and the changing landscape: the Howe of Fife, a case study.
History Scotland, 2(3),
pp. 49-51.
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2002)
Reading the map: understanding Scottish place-names.
History Scotland, 2(1),
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2002)
Stormont, the name and the place.
History Scotland, 2(5),
pp. 44-47.
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2002)
What's in a name? Norse in the islands.
History Scotland, 2(2),
pp. 42-45.
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2000)
Columba east of Drumalban: some aspects of the cult of Columba in eastern Scotland.
Innes Review, 51(2),
pp. 109-130.
Hall, D., Henderson, I. and Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(1998)
A sculptured fragment from Pittensorn Farm, Gellyburn, Perthshire.
Tayside and Fife Archaeological Journal, 4,
pp. 129-144.
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(1998)
Place-names and the early church in Scotland.
Records of the Scottish Church History Society, 28,
pp. 1-22.
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284 and Henderson, M.
(1998)
The medieval marches of Wester Kinnear, Kilmany Parish, Fife.
Tayside and Fife Archaeological Journal, 4,
pp. 232-247.
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(1997)
Generic element variation, with special reference to eastern Scottish place-names.
Nomina: Journal of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland, 20,
pp. 5-22.
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(1994)
Babbet and bridin pudding or polyglot Fife in the Middle Ages.
Nomina: Journal of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland, 17,
pp. 99-118.
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(1994)
Some early Scottish place-names and Queen Margaret.
Scottish Language, 13,
pp. 1-17.
Books
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284, Williamson, Eila ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X and Hough, Carole ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4925-3450
(2025)
The Place-Names of Berwickshire. Volume One. The Border Parishes.
Series: The survey of Scottish place-names (9).
Shaun Tyas: Donington.
ISBN 9781915774279
Whyte, Alasdair C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1256-8245, Forsyth, Katherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9057-3616 and Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2023)
Glasgow’s Gaelic Place-Names.
Birlinn.
ISBN 9781839830464
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284, Clancy, Thomas Owen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5976-4580, McNiven, Peter and Williamson, Eila ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2020)
The Place-Names of Clackmannanshire.
Series: The survey of Scottish place-names, VIII.
Shaun Tyas: Donington.
ISBN 9781907730863
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284, MacLean, Ronald, King, Jacob and MacDonald, Mary
(2019)
Place-Names of the Aird and Strathglass, Inverness-shire (Kiltarlity: Kiltarlity Community Council).
For The Right Reasons Printing and Publishing.
ISBN 9781912270224
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284, McNiven, Peter and Williamson, Eila ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2017)
The Place-Names of Kinross-shire.
Series: Survey of Scottish place-names, 7.
Shaun Tyas.
ISBN 9781907730580
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284 and Markus, G.
(2012)
The Place-Names of Fife. Vol. 5, Discussions, Glossaries and Edited Texts.
Shaun Tyas: Donington, UK.
ISBN 9781907730085
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284 and Markus, G.
(2010)
The Place-Names of Fife. Vol. 4, North Fife Between Eden and Tay.
Shaun Tyas: Donington.
ISBN 9781907730061
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284 and Márkus, G.
(2009)
The Place-Names of Fife. Vol. 3, St Andrews and the East Neuk.
Shaun Tyas: Donington,.
ISBN 9781900289979
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284 and Márkus, G.
(2008)
The Place-Names of Fife. Vol. 2, Central Fife Between the Rivers Leven and Eden.
Shaun Tyas: Donington, UK.
ISBN 9781900289931
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284 and Markus, G.
(2006)
The Place-Names of Fife. Vol. 1, West Fife between Leven and Forth.
Shaun Tyas: Donington.
ISBN 9781900289771
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2004)
The Anderson Century: 100 Years of Medieval Scottish Scholarship 1903-2002.
Series: Anderson memorial lecture series, 1.
The Committee for Dark-Age Studies: St Andrews.
ISBN 9780951257357
Book Sections
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2023)
From kestrels to foul marshes: light on a parish in the Merse c.1200.
In: Oram, Richard (ed.)
‘With Our Backs to the Ocean’: Land, Lordship, Climate Change, and Environment in the North-West European Past. Essays in Memory of Alasdair Ross.
Brepols.
ISBN 9782503596990
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2021)
A tour of the North in seven languages.
In: Bevan, Gareth A., Fychan, G. Angharad, Wyn Owen, Hywel and Parry Owen, Ann (eds.)
Ar Drywydd Enwau Lleoedd: Ysgrifau i Anrhydeddu/ Essays to Honour Gwynedd O. Pierce.
Y Lolfa Cyf.: Talybont, Ceredigion, Wales.
ISBN 9781800990883
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2020)
Coldon / Cowden – place-names: trees, coos, fuel or assembly-sites?
In: Kidd, Sheila M., Clancy, Thomas O. and Ó Maolalaigh, Roibeard (eds.)
Litreachas, Eachdraidh & Cànan: Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 7.
Celtic & Gaelic, University of Glasgow: Glasgow, pp. 398-427.
ISBN 9780903204262
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284 and Edmonds, Fiona
(2017)
Language and names.
In: Stringer, Keith J. and Winchester, Angus J.L. (eds.)
Northern England and Southern Scotland in the Central Middle Ages.
Boydell & Brewer: Martlesham.
ISBN 9781783272662
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2017)
St Vigeans: place, place-names and saints.
In: Geddes, Jane (ed.)
Hunting Picts: Medieval Sculpture at St Vigeans, Angus.
Historic Scotland: Edinburgh, pp. 38-51.
ISBN 9781849172264
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2017)
From Cinrigh Monai to Civitas Sancti Andree: a star is born.
In: Brown, Michael and Stevenson, Katie (eds.)
Medieval St Andrews: Church, Cult, City.
Series: St Andrews Studies in Scottish History.
Boydell & Brewer: Martlesham, Suffolk.
ISBN 9781783271689
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2016)
Charting a course through the Scottish namescape.
In: Hough, Carole and Izdebska, Daria (eds.)
'Names and their Environment'. Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, Glasgow, 25-29 August 2014. Volume 1, Toponomastics I.
University of Glasgow: Glasgow, pp. 2-24.
ISBN 9780852619476
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2016)
Methodologies in place-name research.
In: Hough, Carole (ed.)
The Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming.
Series: Oxford handbooks in linguistics.
Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 69-86.
ISBN 9780199656431
(doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199656431.013.17)
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2011)
Pictish place-names revisited.
In: Driscoll, S.T., Geddes, J. and Hall, M.A. (eds.)
Pictish Progress: New Studies on Northern Britain in the Early Middle Ages.
Series: The Northern World (50).
Brill: Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 67-118.
ISBN 9789004187597
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2011)
Placename studies in Scotland and the Onomasticon.
In: Murray, Kevin and Ó Riain, Pádraig (eds.)
Edmund Hogan's Onomasticon Goedelicum : Reconsiderations.
Series: Subsidiary series (23).
Irish Texts Society = Cumann na Scríbheann nGaedhilge: London, pp. 103-116.
ISBN 9781870166683
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2009)
The trenches at Falkland, Fife: a legacy of royal deer-management?
In: James, H. and Moore, P. (eds.)
Carmarthenshire and Beyond: Studies in History and Archaeology in Memory of Terry James.
Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society, pp. 235-244.
ISBN 9780906972052
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2008)
The toponymic landscape of the Gaelic notes in the Book of Deer.
In: Forsyth, K. (ed.)
Studies on the Book of Deer.
Four Courts Press: Dublin, Ireland, pp. 275-308.
ISBN 9781851825691
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2008)
Pilkembare and pluck the craw: verbal place-names in Scotland.
In: Padel, O.J. and Parsons, D.N. (eds.)
A Commodity of Good Names: Essays in Honour of Margaret Gelling.
Shaun Tyas: Donington.
ISBN 9781900289900
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2007)
Gaelic in Glasgow: the onomastic evidence.
In: Kidd, S.M. (ed.)
Glasgow: Baile Mor Nan Gaidheal: City of the Gaels.
Roinn na Ceiltis, Oilthigh Ghlaschu: Glasgow, pp. 1-19.
ISBN 9780903204231
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2007)
The rock of the Irishmen: an early place-name tale from Fife and Kinross.
In: Smith, B.B., Taylor, S. and Williams, G. (eds.)
West over Sea: Studies in Scandinavian Sea-borne Expansion and Settlement before 1300: a Festschrift in Honour of Dr. Barbara E. Crawford.
Series: Northern world (31).
Brill: Leiden, pp. 497-514.
ISBN 9789004158931
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2006)
The early history and languages of West Dunbartonshire.
In: Brown, I. (ed.)
Changing Identities, Ancient Roots: the History of West Dunbartonshire from Earliest Times.
Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 12-41.
ISBN 9780748625604
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2006)
Place-names in the historical landscape: changing land use in the Howe of Fife.
In: Woolf, A. (ed.)
Landscape and Environment in Dark Age Scotland.
Series: St. John's House papers (11).
The Committee for Dark Age Studies, University of St. Andrews: St. Andrews, pp. 75-90.
ISBN 9780951257364
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2004)
Scandinavians in central Scotland: by-place-names and their context.
In: Williams, G. and Bibire, P. (eds.)
Sagas, Saints and Settlements.
Series: Northern world (11).
Brill: Leiden, pp. 125-145.
ISBN 9004138072
Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284 and Wentworth, R.
(2001)
Pont and place-names.
In: Cunningham, I.C. (ed.)
The Nation Survey'd: Essays on Late Sixteenth-Century Scotland as Depicted by Timothy Pont.
Tuckwell Press in association with National Library of Scotland: East Linton, pp. 55-76.
ISBN 9781862321984
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2001)
The cult of St Fillan in Scotland.
In: Liszka, T.R. and Walker, L.E.M. (eds.)
The North Sea World in the Middle Ages: Studies in the Cultural History of North-Western Europe.
Four Courts: Dublin, pp. 175-210.
ISBN 1851825614
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2000)
The coming of the Augustinians to St Andrews and version B of the St Andrews' foundation legend.
In: Taylor, S. (ed.)
Kings, Clerics and Chronicles in Scotland, 500-1297: Essays in Honour of Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson on the Occasion of her Ninetieth Birthday.
Four Courts: Dublin, pp. 115-123.
ISBN 1851825169
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2000)
Place-names of Fife.
In: Omand, D. (ed.)
The Fife Book.
Birlinn: Edinburgh, pp. 205-220.
ISBN 9781841580234
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(1999)
Seventh-century Iona abbots in Scottish place names.
In: Broun, D. and Clancy, T.O. (eds.)
Spes Scotorum: Hope of Scots : Saint Columba, Iona and Scotland.
T. and T. Clark: Edinburgh, pp. 35-70.
ISBN 9780567086822
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(1996)
Place-names and the early church in eastern Scotland.
In: Crawford, B.E. (ed.)
Scotland in Dark Age Britain.
Series: St John's House papers (6).
Scottish Cultural Press: Aberdeen, pp. 93-110.
ISBN 9781898218616
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(1995)
The Scandinavians in Fife and Kinross: the onomastic evidence.
In: Crawford, B.E. (ed.)
Scandinavian Settlement in Northern Britain: Thirteen Studies of Place-names in their Historical Context.
Leicester University Press: London, pp. 141-167.
ISBN 071851923X
Edited Books
Smith, B.B., Taylor, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284 and Williams, G. (Eds.)
(2007)
West over sea : studies in Scandinavian sea-borne expansion and settlement before 1300: a festschrift in honour of Dr. Barbara E. Crawford.
Series: Northern world.
Brill: Leiden.
ISBN 9789004158931
Website
Aitken, Brian, Hough, Carole ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4925-3450, Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284 and Williamson, Eila ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2018)
The Berwickshire Place-Name Resource.
[Website]
Burns, Alison, Clancy, Thomas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5976-4580, Crawford, Barbara, Gammeltoft, Peder, Hough, Carole ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4925-3450, Hovmark, Henrik, Jakobsen, Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig, Simmons, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8278-2816 and Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284
(2014)
Cognitive Toponymy: Project: People and Places in Synergy.
[Website]
Additional information
I hold a 0.5 contract as lecturer, specialising in Scottish onomastics (the study of names), based partly within Celtic & Gaelic (School of Humanities) and partly within English Language & Linguistics (School of Critical Studies). Within the latter I am Co-Investigator on the Leverhulme Trust funded 3-year project Recovering the Earliest English Language in Scotland: the Evidence of Place-Names (REELS), start-date January 2016, which aims to use place-names to investigate the Northumbrian dialect of Old English and its development into Older Scots.
