Welby

Welby, Leicestershire

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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Viking Names

Keywords

Leicestershire, male_name, place-name

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References

Barrie Cox, The Place-Names of Leicestershire III. English Place-Name Society LXXXI (2004), p. 18.