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.

Comberton Aits

Early-attested site in the Parish of Great and Little Comberton

Historical Forms

  • lez Neytes 1544 LP

Etymology

These islands in the Avon are probably those spoken of as lez Neytes in 1544 (LP) in a grant of Elmley Castle, v. iggoð .The form Neytes shows the common prefixed n , cf. Neight supra 137.

Places in the same Parish

Major Settlement