Linby

Linby, Nottinghamshire

Linby, in the Broxtow Wapentake of Nottinghamshire, comes from Old Norse lind ‘a lime tree’ and by ‘a farmstead, a village’.

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Viking Names

Keywords

agriculture, Nottinghamshire, place-name

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Acknowledgements

Image © David Lally, via Geograph, CC BY-SA 2.0

References

J.E.B. Gover, Allen Mawer and F.M. Stenton, The Place-Names of Nottinghamshire. English Place-Name Society Volume XVII (1940), pp. 122-123,