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I wondered what places in England Copilot could find that are named for Anglo-Saxon divinities.

Here's the list it came up with, and some potted notes I've added about the god or goddess concerned. We don't really know much about these shadowy figures but these may be vaguely on the right track, although of course what these deities stood for exactly must have varied enormously in different places and at different times.

The name Tiw is interesting because it’s cognate with Latin Jupiter, ‘Sky father’ Greek Zeus and indeed divine and deity. This sky-god, originally the ruler of the gods, came to occupy a less prominent position in Germanic mythology.