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Survey of English Place-Names

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Nomansland

Other OS name in the Parish of Wheathampstead

Historical Forms

  • bruera de Nomanslond 1428 Annales
  • Nomaneslond 1433 Cassio

Etymology

is bruera de Nomanslond 1428 Annales, Nomaneslond 1433Cassio . It lies on the parish boundary and was at one time extra - parochial and the subject of frequent dispute between the Abbots of St Albans andWestminster (VCH ii, 295) .