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.

The Nash

Early-attested site in the Parish of Kempsey

Historical Forms

Esse 1182 RBB 18th

de Fraxino 1255,1275 Ass 1275 SR 1338 Pat

Asshe 1301 RBB 18th

Etymology

'Ash,' v. æsc and cf. Napleton supra .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Major Settlement

Kempsey