English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Ninneywood (Fm)

Early-attested site in the Parish of Great and Little Missenden

Historical Forms

  • Nynning (wood) 1540 L.ii.372
  • Ninningwood 1714 Rec.xi.178

Etymology

One may suspect that this is corrupt and that the true form is Nyming and that it is the word niming used of 'taking in' some piece of wood, noted by Ekwall, PN-ing 25.