Saundby, in the Bassetlaw Wapentake of Nottinghamshire, comes from Sandi, a Scandinavian male personal name still in use in the the twelfth-century Danelaw and by ‘a farmstead, a village’. Forms of the place-name indicate that the first element is a personal name rather than the Old Norse element sandr ‘sand’. Additionally the nature of the ground confirms this suggestion.
