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.

Nymphayes

Other OS name in the Parish of Zeal Monachorum

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) [ nimp- ] was probably the home of Henry de Nymetheia of Winkleigh ( 1333SR ) . v. (ge)hæg . For the first element , v. GeorgeNympton supra 348 .

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