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Ninnings alias Ninnetts

Early-attested site in the Parish of Nazeing

Historical Forms

  • campus voc. Overe Inninge, campus voc. Nethere Inninge t.Ed1 Waltham
  • Innynges 1475 MinAcct

Etymology

Ninnings (6″) alias Ninnetts is campus voc. Overe Inninge , campus voc. Nethere Inninge t. Ed 1Waltham , Innynges 1475MinAcct . OE  innung is found only in the sense of 'income, contents,' but in EModE  inning is used of 'the action of taking in, inclosing, etc.' It is used particularly of the reclaiming of marsh or flooded land, e.g. of the marshes of Woolwich and Wapping in 1530 and 1544 (NED). Here it is used in a more general sense. In Ninneywood (Bk) it is used of enclosing woodland. Cf. lez West Innynges in Houghton Regis (Beds) 1430 AD vi, and Newynnyng (1548LRMB ) in Byfleet (Sr). For the n cf. Nelmes and Noak Hill infra 114, 116.