Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Newbold by Nantwich 1671 AddCh

• Neubold 1319 Plea

• Newbold 1348 ib

• Neuton H3 AddCh

Etymology

Newbold By Nantwich (lost), Newbold by Nantwich 1671AddCh , Neubold 1319 Plea, Newbold 1348 ibet freq with variant spellings Neu (e )bold , New (e )bold , Newbold (e ), Newbolt , Newbalt in Plea, MinAcct , ChRR, Orm2, Chol , BPR and Sotheby ; Newbold iuxta Edlaston 1319 Plea, 1417 Orm2, Newbold by Wizmaubank , Newbold iuxta Nantwich , etc. 1361 BPR, 1362 Plea, Newbold in Acton by Hurleston 1440 ChRR, le Newbolt 1418 Orm2, and cf. Edleston field-names the Newbold (e ) Me (a )dowe , Furnewbolde , the Hyer Newbold (e ) & the Lowere Newbold (e ), (le ) Newbold bache 1560, 1564, 1565Sotheby , Chol , the New Bales 1640Chol , Farther Newballs , Great Newballs & Little Newballs 1683ib , Farther Newballs & Hither Newballs 1695ib , Farther Newbalds & Hither Newbalds 1741ib . The name means 'the new house', from nīwe and bold (bōðl), with mǣd and bæce 1 . This place may also be Neuton H3AddCh , 128 supra . It was probably located in the eastern part of Edlaston township about 110–6451. Orm2 iii 386 recites the inclusion in the manor in 1348 of a lane from Edleston supra to the rivulet of a mill at Shrewbridge 131supra . There is an appropriate moated site at 110–638507, cf. Moat (Bank) infra .