In a message dated 14/07/2007 15:30:57 GMT Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Newbottle was Neubotl in 1196, according to "The Oxford Names Companion". It means 'new building' from the Old English nīwe + bōthl Regards Stan Mapstone Stan: If we go back a further 13 years we reach 1183, and Boldon Book (often called "the Co Durham equivalent of Domesday Book"). There, according to my Phillimore edition, it is called "Neubottil". -bottle is quite a common place-name ending in the NE, giving us Newbottle, Harbottle, Shilbottle, Lorbottle, Walbottle, etc, etc, as well as Bothal (Northumberland) and various others. It is also the same root as Bothy. Geoff Nicholson