Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Nesebit 1382 Hatf

• The closes called Nesbethe nigh Graystones 1600 SurteesIII274

• Nesbit alias Humbleton 1800 Eldon after1827

• Nesbit, now more usually called Humbleton, Nesbett otherwise Humbleton 1823 SurteesIII274

• Humbleton Field 1600 SurteesIII274

• Humbleton Farme 1788 DX1022/173

• Humbleton otherwise Nesbitt 1808 DX1022/34

Etymology

The two names for this place derive from ME  nese-bit 'nose-shaped parcel of land', OE  *nesu + bite, cf. Nesbit Hall, Durham NZ 4536, supra pp. 100–1, in a triangle of land between Nesbit Dene and Thorpe Bulmer Dene; Nesbitt, Northumberland NZ 0869, Nesebith 1298, NbDu 147, by a triangular-shaped hill-spur; and Nesbit, Northumberland NT 9833, Nesebyt (e ), Nesebite 1298 ib; also OE  *hamol 'crooked, scarred, mutilated' + dūn 'hill', with ME ō for ā and subsequent raising to u , cf. Humbleton, Durham NZ 0917, Hamaldun c.1170×80Spec (p), Hameldon '1197 Pipe (p), Homeldon '1320 Rav, and Northumberland NT 9728, Hameldun 1169, Humbledon 1403, Humbleton 1580 NbDu 120.