Bigby

Bigby, Lincolnshire

Bigby, in the Yarborough Wapentake of Lincolnshire, probably comes form the Old Norse male personal name Bekki and the Old Norse element by ‘farm, settlement’.

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Viking Names

Keywords

Lincolnshire, male_name, place-name

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References

Kenneth Cameron, A Dictionary of Lincolnshire Place-Names. Nottingham: English Place-Name Society (1998), p. 14.