Michaelmas term Michaelmas term Michaelmas term is the first academic term of the academic year in a number of English-speaking universities and schools in the northern hemisphere, especially in the United Kingdom. Michaelmas term derives its name from the Feast of St Michael and All Angels, which falls on 29 September. The term runs from September or October to Christmas. The term is also the name of the first of four terms into which the legal year is divided by the Courts of England and Wales and the Courts of Northern Ireland. While the name is not used in the legal systems
Welsh exonyms border with Wales. In some cases, such as Ross-on-Wye ("") and probably Leominster (""), the English name seems to have derived from the Welsh name. In other cases, such as "" (Ludlow) and "" (Hereford), the Welsh name derived from the English name of the settlement. Below are lists of Welsh exonyms. Welsh exonyms The modern Welsh language contains names for many towns and other geographical features in Great Britain and elsewhere. Names of places outside Wales are exonyms. In some cases, these derive from the Brythonic names which were used during or before the Roman occupation: for example, ""