Revesby, in the Bolingbroke Wapentake of Lincolnshire, comes from the Old Norse male personal name Refr (which is also the word for ‘fox’) and the Old Norse element by ‘farm, settlement’.
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Kenneth Cameron, A Dictionary of Lincolnshire Place-Names. Nottingham: English Place-Name Society (1998), p. 101.
