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.

Napsbury

Early-attested site in the Parish of St Peters

Historical Forms

  • Absa 1086 DB
  • Apsa 1077–93 Gesta 14th
  • Apse 1236 Pat 1248 Ass
  • Aspa 1428 FA
  • Napsebury 1396–1401 Gesta
  • Nappesbury t.Hy4 Stowe
  • Apsa al. Apsabury 1540 LP
  • Aspehide 1436 Cassio
  • Appeshyde 1512 Ct

Etymology

'At the aspen tree,' v. æspe and Appspond supra 90. For the later bury , v. infra 245. For the initial n , v. æt and cf. Nasty infra 134. See also hid infra 245.