Gautby

Gautby, Lincolnshire

Gautby, in the South Riding of Lindsey in Lincolnshire, comes from the Old Norse male personal name Gauti and Old Norse bý ‘a farmstead, a village’.

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Viking Names

Keywords

Lincolnshire, male_name, place-name

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Acknowledgements

Image © Richard Croft, via Geograph, CC BY-SA 2.0

References

Kenneth Cameron, A Dictionary of Lincolnshire Place-Names. Nottingham: English Place-Name Society (1998), p. 49.