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Survey of English Place-Names

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Nimmings Plantation

Early-attested site in the Parish of Clent

Etymology

This is probably the same as 'land in Churchill called Nemmynges ,' 1429 LyttCh. In any case it is an example of OE  niming , used of land taken into cultivation or enclosed. v. PN in -ing 25. Cf. Nimmings Fm infra 346.

Places in the same Parish