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.

The Naite

Other OS name in the Parish of Adlestrop

Historical Forms

  • le Neyte c.1603 TRMB

Etymology

, le Neyte c. 1603TRMB 39 , v. atten , ēgeð ' island ' ; this place is high on the hillside , and the name must therefore have had the sense of dial . ait , nait ' osier bed ' , rather than the usual ' island ' .

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