Beelsby, in the Haverstoe Wapentake of Lincolnshire, perhaps comes from the rare Old Norse male personal name Beli and the Old Norse element bý ‘a farmstead, a village’.
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Kenneth Cameron, A Dictionary of Lincolnshire Place-Names. Nottingham: English Place-Name Society (1998), p. 12.
Kenneth Cameron with John Field and John Insley, The Place-Names of Lincolnshire IV, English Place-Name Society Volume LXXI (1995), pp. 57-58.
