Welby, in the Framland Hundred of Leicestershire, is a Scandinavian compound from the Old Norse male personal name Āli and the Old Norse element by ‘a farmstead, a village’.
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Barrie Cox, The Place-Names of Leicestershire III. English Place-Name Society LXXXI (2004), p. 18.