Flixborough, in the West Riding of Lindsey in Lincolnshire, is a hybrid name from the Old Norse male name Flíkand Old English burh ‘a fortified place’.
It is highly likely, in a place-name with Old English burh as the second element, that the Old Norse Flík has replaced an earlier Old English name or element.
An important Anglo-Saxon settlement site has been excavated here.
Christopher Loveluck and David Atkinson. The Early Medieval Settlement Remains from Flixborough, Lincolnshire: the occupation sequence, c. AD 600-1000. Oxford: Oxbow (2007).
