Stixwould

Stixwould, Lincolnshire

Stixwould, in the South Riding of Lincolnshire, is a hybrid place-name from the Old Norse male personal name Stigr and Anglian wald ‘a forest; high forest-land’, which is topographically appropriate.

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Viking Names

Keywords

hybrid name, Lincolnshire, male_name, place-name

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Acknowledgements

Image © Ian S, via Geograph, CC BY-SA 2.0

References

Kenneth Cameron, A Dictionary of Lincolnshire Place-Names. Nottingham: English Place-Name Society (1998), p. 118.