Place-names of all types, from regional names to the names of the smallest landscape features, are incredibly rich sources of historical, linguistic, and environmental information. Yet they have been largely undervalued in interdisciplinary historical studies. My research follows recent scholarly trends which aim to rectify this situation. I am exploring how place-names, specifically those of minor landscape features and fields, can be best utilised in understanding and reconstructing the historic rural environment. I am investigating this through two case studies in the historic North and West Ridings of Yorkshire, gathering name forms from medieval documents held in archives. I am also interested in how the environmental information held in place-names can be represented visually with the use of, for example, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and further how this can all be communicated to academic and non-academic audiences in an effective and meaningful way.