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Survey of English Place-Names

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Neasham Abbey

Other OS name in the Parish of Hurworth

Historical Forms

  • house and site of late monastery of Neasham 1540 ZRI5/12
  • Neasham Abbey 1540×1 BowesG69/1 1672 1770
  • site of the dissolved monastery of Neasham: a capital messuage called Neasham Abbey 1666 ZRI5/25

Etymology

: house and site of late monastery of Neasham 1540ZRI 5/12, Neasham Abbey [1540×1, 1672] 1770Bowes G 69/1, site of the dissolved monastery of Neasham : a capital messuage called Neasham Abbey 1666ZRI 5/25 ;