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Nesbit and Thorpe Bulmer

Major Settlement in the Parish of Hart

Historical Forms

  • Nesebit c.1160 Spec
  • Nesebite 1198×1204 GD c.1220 FPD 1233×44 Spec 1242×3 Ass
  • Nesebita early13th Spec
  • Nesebyt early13th Spec 15th
  • Nesebet 1382 Hatf 1521×2,1538 IPM
  • Nesebid 1382 Hatf
  • Nesebett 1410 Lang 1537×8,1563 IPM
  • Nesebeth 1539 ib
  • Necebett 1588 ib
  • Nesbitt 1311 RPD 1399 Spec 1632×3 IPM
  • Nesbyt' 1324(p)etfreqto1348(p) Spec
  • Nesbyt c.1325(p)etfreqto1431 Spec 1343 Wills 1350 Rot
  • Nesbytt c.1325(p),1345(p) Spec 1596 Wills
  • Nesbith 1329 Spec
  • Nesbet 1382 Hatf 1460etfreqto1539 IPM
  • Nesbytt' 1384 Spec
  • Nesbit 1397(p),1399(p) ib
  • Nesbite 14th Cler 15th
  • Nesbett 1410×19 Lang 1485 Spec 1698 Eldon 1700 GD
  • Nesbeth 1498,1530×31 IPM

Etymology

'Nose-shaped piece of land', OE  *nesu + bite. The estate lies in a triangular piece of land tapering to a point between Crimdon Beck and a small affluent.