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WorksheetsAnglo-Saxon Place Names
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 3mins
How many kingdoms was Anglo-Saxon Britain divided into?
5
6
7
8
Which of these place names means "West Saxons"?
Sussex
Northumbria
Mercia
Wessex
Which of these place names means "the place the Angles first settled in"?
Wessex
Sussex
Mercia
East Anglia
Which of these Anglo-Saxon kingdoms still exists today?
Wessex
Mercia
Kent
The suffix '-ford' means that this place is...
open land
a river crossing
an island
a farm
Which of these is the correct name for a place in Britain today?
Birmingham
Birmingbury
The suffix '-mere' (as in 'Windermere', a place in the Lake District) means what?
water
ocean
pool or lake
wet
Where did some British people go to to escape the Anglo-Saxon invaders?
Scotland and Ireland
Wales and Cornwall
Cornwall and France
Wales and Ireland
Which of these is not one of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms?
Kent
London
Sussex
Northumbria
Kent was named after the people called 'the Kentings'. From which tribe did they come?
Jutes
Angles
Saxons
Scots
