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.

Nunsthorpe

Early-attested site in the Parish of Great Grimsby

Etymology

Nunsthorpe, a modern district about which Gillett 295 comments, “by 1939 the corporation … had built 714 houses on the new Nunsthorpe estate”.