Hoby, in the East Goscote Hundred of Leicestershire, is an Anglo-Scandinavian hybrid name from Old English hoh ‘a heel; a sharply projecting piece of ground’ and Old Norse by ‘A farmstead, a village’. The name is topographically appropriate because the present village sits at the foot of a great spur of land which abuts the River Wreake. Hoby is now a joint parish with Rotherby.
