Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Nelehous 1391 GDR

• Nelehouse(s) 1540 AOMB 1589 LRMB

• Nelhuse, Nelhusse 1486 Orton

• Nelhouse Barrouse, Nelhouse yeate 1589 ExchKR

• Nellusse 1490 Orton

• Nelesse 1664 PR(Dalston)

• Neilhus 1507 Orton

• Nellehowsegate 1589 LRMB

• Neeles 1605 CWxl

• Neelus 1674 CWxiv

• Neelhouse bars 1777 NB

• Nelesse 1664 PR(Dalston)

• Nilus 1668 CW(OS)xiv

• Nelebigginge 1269 Cl 1339 Lowther

• Nelesbigginge 1269 Cl 1339 Lowther

Etymology

The first element in this name is probably the personal name Ne (a )le .The second is hūs. Nelebigginge 1269 Cl, 1339Lowther , Nelesbigginge 1269 Cl, 1339Lowther was also in this neighbourhood, and may be the same place, or it may refer to another building (v. bygging ) belonging to the same man. Cf. also Neelesdores 1605 CW xl (supra 145), close at hand. Barrouse refers to the bars which once stretched across the Carlisle-Wigton road here (H ii, 463 n.). Cf. Barras supra 70.