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.

Nought Bank

Other OS name in the Parish of Ripon

Historical Forms

  • Naught Banke 1698 ib

Etymology

, 1685YAS Md 16 , Naught Banke 1698 ib , OE  nāwiht , ME  nouʒte ' nothing ' used adjectivally in the sense ' worthless, of no value ' , v. banke .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site