Description
Spilsby
Spilsby, Lincolnshire
The name of Spilsby, in the Bolingbroke Wapentake of Lincolnshire, comes from the Old Norse male byname Spillir and the Old Norse element by ‘farm, settlement’.
Ascribed Culture
Collection
- Viking Names
Keywords
- Lincolnshire, place-name
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References
Kenneth Cameron, A Dictionary of Lincolnshire Place-Names. Nottingham: English Place-Name Society (1998), p. 115.