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.

Nixonstown

Other OS name in the Parish of Bewcastle

Etymology

is so named in 1686 (CW ii) . Cf. Nixon 's quarter 1777NB . The history of the site is unknown , but it was presumably associated with a branch of the widely distributed Border family of this name .