Description
Ketsby
Ketsby, Lincolnshire
Ketsby, in the Hill Wapentake of Lincolnshire, comes from the Old Norse male personal name Ketill and the Old Norse element by ‘farmstead, village’.
It is a joint parish with South Ormsby.
Ascribed Culture
Collection
- Viking Names
Keywords
- Lincolnshire, place-name
Further information
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References
Kenneth Cameron, A Dictionary of Lincolnshire Place-Names. The English Place-Name Society (1998), p. 73.
Gillian Fellows Jensen, Scandinavian Settlement Names in the East Midlands. Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag (1978), p. 56.