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.

Nass Ho

Early-attested site in the Parish of Lydney

Historical Forms

  • Nest 1086 DB
  • Naste 1445 BledCt
  • (la) Nasse 1221 Ass 1227 FF 1261 c.1275 For 1595 FF
  • Nass 1400 GR265 1642 Comm
  • Nesse 1221,1248 Ass
  • Ess' 1248 Ass
  • Nashe (Castell) 1559 GR421
  • Nash Hill 1824 M

Etymology

v. næss 'headland', here referring to a somewhat projecting part of the Severn bank; cf. Cliff Ho (infra ). It has clearly been confused with ME  atten ashe 'at the ash'.