Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Nova Aula 1227 Ch 1430 ChRR

• La Nouehall 1252 Ch 1378 Pat

• Newhall 1256–7 AD

• Newhall iuxta Cumbermere 1336 Plea

• Newhall iuxta Aston 1354 Eyre

• Newhall iuxta Merbury 1621 Orm2 1656

• Newhall in Wrenbury 1573 BM

• Niewehall 1330 Pat

• Nywehall 1337 AddCh

• Nuhall 1540 Chol

• la Neuhalle alias la Wodehalle 1312 Cl

• Newehal 1321 Fine

• Neuhale 1358 BPR

• Newnhall 1745 Wil

Etymology

'The new hall', 'hall in a wood', v. nīwe , hall , wudu . This was a new house built by the lords Audley e.1227. It was fortified, probably with a peel-tower. Leland v 25 states 'There was a place of the Lorde Audelays in Chestreshire betwixt Cumbremere and Nantwiche caullid Newhaule Tower . It is now downe. There be motes', cf. Moat Meadow 1845TA , (v. mote ), and castrum de Nova Aula 1276, 1283 Ipm, tower of Newehalle 1322 ChancW (v. tour 'a turret, a castle- tower'). Combermere 93supra and Aston infra are adjacent, but Marbury 106infra is beyond Wrenbury 119infra . The additions distinguish this from Newall 2208.