Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Neteltone 1086 DB

• Neteltune c.1115 LS 1150–60,l12 Dane

• Neteltun(') 1150–60 1218 Ass 1226 Cur 1238–43 Fees 1245 HarlCh

• Neteltune Hy3 ib

• Neteltona 1187 Gilb 1409 RAix 1219–26 1225–30,1230–40 ib

• Netelton John Abbr 1210 Cur 1212 Fees 1220 FF c.1220 DC 1428,1431 FA 1664 Terrier

• Neteleton' 1225 Cur

• Nettiltona c.1150,1187,e13,1276(1409) Gilb

• Nettilton(') 1242–43 Fees 1344 Cl 1346 FA 1359 Ipm 1526 Sub 1548 Pat 1577 Terrier

• Netheltun 1150–60 Dane

• Netleton(') 1175 ChancR 1176 P 1224 FF 1224 Cur 1231 Cl 1235 Dugdvi 1271–72 Ass 1274 RRGr 1298 Abbr 1636,1657 Foster 1648,1709 Yarb

• Netletun' 1218 Ass

• Netteltona a1219 Welles

• Netteltun 1242 HarlCh

• Nettelton(') 1252 Ch 1254 ValNor 1263 FF 1281 QW 1282 Ipm 1291 Tax 1492 Fine 1552,1555 Pat

• Nettelton(') “by” Thwangcastre 1349 ib

• Netiltona 1230–40 RAiv c.1250,1276(1409) Gilb

• Netilton(') 1325 Cl 1332 SR 1336 RAiv 1340 Cl 1343 NI 1393 Cl 1472 WillsPCC

• Netiltun 1346 Cl

• Netiltone 1389 Dugdvi 1540 Whit 1547 MinAcct

• Netylton 1428 FA 1529,1530,1531 Willsiii

• Nettleton(') 1242–43 Fees 1271 Ass 1303 Ipm 1305,1342 Pat 1576 LER 1576 Saxton 1610 Speed

• Nettylton 1535 VEiv 1550,1561 Pat

Etymology

'The farmstead or village where nettles grow', v. netel(e), tūn .For Thwangcastre v. Caistor supra . Before the widespread use of fertilisers, the presence of nettles indicated a phosphate content in the soil, suggesting that the ground where they grew had been previously settled.