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.

Nottinghamshire

Volume edited by : J. E. B. Gover, Allen Mawer, F. M. Stenton 1940

Historical Forms

  • Snotingahamscire 1016 ASC
  • Snotinghamscire 1016 ASC
  • Snotinghamscire 1064 ASC 1065 ASC 1086 DB
  • Snotingehamscyre 1086 1075–92 Eynsham
  • Esnotingehamscire 1093 RegAntiq late12th
  • Notingehamscira 1130 P
  • Notingehamscire t.Stephen Ch 1316

Etymology

No later spellings with initial s have been found. For the origin of the county v. Introd. xvi, n. 1.