Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Walda, Waldā, Wallam 1086 DB

• Walda 1227–55 FF

• Walde 1205 Cur 1250 Cl

• Walda Essex, Walda Henr', bosc' Henrici de Essex' in villa de Waude 1248 Ass

• Valde 1303 FA

• Weld(e) 1251,1260 Pat

• Weld(e) Basset 1291 For 1303,1346,1428 FA

• North Weld(e) 1299 ADi 1328,1331 Londin 1331 Cl 1353,1354 Pat

• Nor Waude, Waude Essex 1254 Ass

• Northwaude 1267–8 FF

• Weude Essex 1255 Ass

• Northwell 1306 FF 1493–1500 ECP

• Northwell Bassett 1555 FF 1599 GreenstedPR

• Northwold 1326 Inqaqd

• Northwylde 1509 Ct

• Northweal 1651,1695 GreenstedPR

Etymology

'Forest land,' v. weald . In the reign of Henry II the manor was granted to Henry de Essex . His grandson Baldwin later granted it to Sir Philip Basset (AD , A 768, 774). North as opposed to South Weald in Chafford Hundred, infra 135. “It is sometimes called Nether -Weld ” (M i, 149).