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.

Nox

Early-attested site in the Parish of Pontesbury

Historical Forms

  • Nocks 1768 ib

Etymology

NOX, 1783 PR(H) 12, Nocks 1768 ib. Named from Richard Nock who built an alehouse here in 1653 (VCH VIII261). The alehouse was called Star and Ball ; the building is now Nox Ho. An earlier Richard Noc appears as a juror for Ford Hundred 1255 RH. The squatter settlement here was the earliest one on the southern fringe of Ford Heath.