Fulbeck

Fulbeck, Lincolnshire

Fulbeck, in the Loveden Wapentake of Lincolnshire, is an Anglo-Scandinavian hybrid formed from Old English fūl ‘foul, dirty’ and Old Norse bekkr ‘stream, a beck’, which  likely replaced Old English broc, ‘brook’ based on earlier forms of the place-name.

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Viking Names

Keywords

hybrid name, Lincolnshire, place-name, river, water

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Acknowledgements

Image © Tony Hibberd, via Geograph, CC BY-SA 2.0

References

Kenneth Cameron, A Dictionary of Lincolnshire Place-Names. Nottingham: English Place-Name Society (1998), p. 47.