Ruckland

Ruckland, Lincolnshire

Ruckland, in the Louth Eske Wapentake of Lincolnshire, is a Scandinavian compound formed from Old Norse hrókr ‘a rook’ and Old Norse lundr ‘a small wood’.

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Viking Names

Keywords

bird, landscape, Lincolnshire, place-name

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Acknowledgements

Image © J.Hannan-Briggs, via Geograph, CC BY-SA 2.0

Image © Dennis Wetherley, via Geograph, CC BY-SA 2.0

References

Kenneth Cameron, A Dictionary of Lincolnshire Place-Names. Nottingham: English Place-Name Society (1998), p. 103.