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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.

North Fm

Other OS name in the Parish of Wold Newton

Historical Forms

  • North Hall 1604,1629 MiD
  • North hall 1605 ib

Etymology

, North Hall 1604, 1629MiD , North hall 1605 ib ; it is north in the village and it may be purely coincidental that a family called North is well - represented in early documents , cf. terram Ade North Hy3 (13) Alv , Peter North 1327, 1332SR , Peter North of Waldeneuton 1349 Fine , and cf. South Fm infra .