English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Nuthill

Early-attested site in the Parish of Burstwick

Historical Forms

  • Not(h)ele 1086 DB
  • Nutle 1154–80,1203–21 YCh1397–8 1241 FF c.1265 KF
  • Nuttele 1190 YCh 1301 YI
  • Nutele 1246 Ass
  • Noutle 1253 Ebor
  • Nuttle 1268 FF 1374 YD
  • Noutel 1268 Ebor
  • Nutel(l) 1274 1284 Pat 1342 SR
  • Nuttel(l) 1275 YI 1395 Dugd
  • Nuttil(l), Nuttyl(l) 1282 Ch 1295,1301 Ebor 1339 Extent 1478 YD
  • Nutil 1286 Misc
  • Nuthil(l), Nuthyll 1297 LS 1305 BevAct 1475 Pat

Etymology

'Nut hill,' v. hnutu , hyll . There is the same variation in the forms of the second element as in Harthill infra 151.