The name of Scrooby probably comes from the Old Norse female personal name Skroppa and the Old Norse element by ‘farm, settlement’.
This object is related to Scrooby, Nottinghamshire. Find out about Scrooby, Nottinghamshire.
J.E.B. Gover, Allen Mawer and F.M. Stenton, The Place-Names of Nottinghamshire. English Place-Name Society Volume XVII (1940), pp. 96-97.
