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Survey of English Place-Names

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Nottington Spa

Other OS name in the Parish of Broadwey

Etymology

, an e19 bath house enclosing a ' medicinal spring ' with ' a strong fetid sulphureous smell , not much unlike gunpowder newly enflamed , and a flavour resembling boiled eggs , sometimes rotten eggs ' ( Hutch1 1420 ) , now ' fallen into disuse ' ( Kelly ) , v. spa .