The two field-names Nicheston and Puchesston are recorded in Pickenham in Norfolk in 1200 [Dodwell:FFNf pp.107-108].

They seem to form a natural pair, and the second looks like a typical puck-name (cf. OED s.v. puck n.1), though I am not aware of any other -ton compound with this 'goblin' word.   What is the element in the first?   OED s.n. Nick n.2 has this as a name for the devil only from c.1695.  (Smith (EPNE) has examples with nicor, but that word is unrelated.)

Keith

@book{Dodwell:FFNf,

  title=    "{Feet of fines for the county of Norfolk for the tenth year of the reign of King Richard the First, 1198--1199 and for the first four years of the reign of King John, 1199--1202, now first printed from the original in the custody of the Master of the Rolls}",

 editor=   "Barbara Dodwell",

  volume=    "LXV (NS 27)",

  year=     "1950",

  publisher="Pipe Roll Society",

  address=  "London",

  keywords={primary_source},

}