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.

Nunnery

Other OS name in the Parish of Halifax

Historical Forms

  • Nunnery Farm 1598 Murg

Etymology

, Nunnery Farm 1598Murg , ME  nonnerie ' a nunnery ' ; the allusion is obscure unless it is to ' a house of ill-repute ' , a usage evidenced from the sixteenth century ( NED s.v . ) .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name