Swarby

Swarby, Lincolnshire

Swarby, in the Aswardhurn Wapentake of Lincolnshire, is an Old Norse compound formed from the male byname Svarri and by ‘a farmstead, a village’. Swarby is a joint parish with Aswarby.

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Collection

Viking Names

Keywords

Lincolnshire, male_name, place-name

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Acknowledgements

Image © Keith Evans, via Geograph, CC BY-SA 2.0

References

Kenneth Cameron, A Dictionary of Lincolnshire Place-Names. Nottingham: English Place-Name Society (1998), p. 121.