Nashway (Fm)
Early-attested site in the Parish of Brill
Historical Forms
- Lesa 1086 DB
- Esses 1227 Ass 1241 Ass 1242 Fees874 1255 RH
- Esse 1237–40 Fees 1255 RH 1316 FA
- Aysshegh 1298 VCHii.132
Etymology
This Domesday manor has hitherto not been identified.Round (VCH i. 268) showed that it was identical with the Esses of the Book of Fees , that it was probably on the Oxfordshire border, and that it was the Esses and Esshe of FA. It is clear also that it is the Esses in Ixhill Hundred of the Assize Rolls and the Hasse in the same Hundred and the Esses in the manor of Brill in RH. In the Book of Fees it is mentioned between Boarstall and Addingrove and also between Winchendon and Worminghall. In FA it is associated with a lost Merlake (117).In a perambulation of the forest of Bernwood printed in VCH (ii. 132) we have, in a list of boundary-marks, Tittershall Wood, Grenville's Wood, Phippenhoo (v. Chilton Park infra ), Brill Forks, Moorley's Farm which we can identify, and then we have Aysshegh , followed by a messuage of Walter de Byllyndon , which must be the Byllyngdons in Oakley and Addingrove of 1489 (Ipm). Later on we come to Field Fm, Honeyburge and Merlake . Nashway Farm lies right in the line of this boundary and it is clear that here we have the last relic of the lost manor.Nahsway should really be Nashhay (v. hæg ) and that must take its name from the lost manor of Ash , with prefixed n as in Nash in Whaddon and so many other Nashes , v. æsc . The l of the DB form is probably the French definite article.