© Mat Fascione, via Geograph, CC BY-SA 2.0

Blaby

Blaby, Leicestershire

Blaby, in the Guthlaxton Hundred of Leicestershire, likely comes from the unrecorded Old Norse male personal name Blár, which appears to be a byname from the Old Norse adjective blár ‘dark’, combined with the Old Norse element by ‘a farmstead, a village’.

Ascribed Culture

Collection

Viking Names

Keywords

byname, Leicestershire, male_name, place-name

Further information

This object is related to Blaby, Leicestershire.
Find out about Blaby, Leicestershire.

Acknowledgements

Image © Mat Fascione, via Geograph, CC BY-SA 2.0

References

Barrie Cox, The Place-Names of Leicestershire V. English Place-Name Society LXXXVIII (2011), p. 32.

Barrie Cox, A Dictionary of Leicestershire and Rutland Place-Names. Nottingham: English Place-Name Society (2005), p. 11.

More items

Sysonby
Swithland
Slawston
Cosby
Carlton Curlieu
Brentingby
Croxton Kerrial
Krok
South Croxton
Bark
Barkby