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.

Nomansland

Other OS name in the Parish of Wheathampstead

Historical Forms

  • bruera de Nomanslond 1428 Annales
  • Nomaneslond 1433 Cassio

Etymology

is bruera de Nomanslond 1428 Annales, Nomaneslond 1433Cassio . It lies on the parish boundary and was at one time extra - parochial and the subject of frequent dispute between the Abbots of St Albans andWestminster (VCH ii, 295) .

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