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.

Newsham

Early-attested site in the Parish of Appleton le Street

Historical Forms

  • Newehusum, Neuhuse, Niehusum 1086 DB
  • Neusum 13 Malton
  • Newesum 1300 Baildon
  • Neusom 1301 LS 1368 FF

Etymology

'(At the) new houses' from OE  (æt þǣm ) nīwum hūsum .v. niwe , hus . Ekwall (IPN 68) suggests that the DB form Niehusum may contain ON  nýr , 'new.'

Places in the same Parish