When decoding dubiously written (and spelt) place names from old documents, I would very much like to use wildcards, regexes and "sounds like" (SONDEX and others) on a list of known places.
Does anyone know of a large list of UK place names, ideally with as many old variants as possible, that I could download?
I have a collated list from the Facebook group "Place Names of England" which has around 30,000 names, that the best I've found so far.