Wrawby

Wrawby, Lincolnshire

Wrawby, in the Yarborough Wapentake in Lincolnshire, comes from the Old Danish male personal name Wraggi and Old Norse by ‘farm, settlement’. 

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Viking Names

Keywords

Lincolnshire, male_name, place-name

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Acknowledgements

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

References

Kenneth Cameron, The Place-Names of Lincolnshire II. English Place-Name Society Volume LXIV/LXV (1991), pp. 307-308. 

Gillian Fellows Jensen, Scandinavian Settlement Names in the East Midlands. Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag (1978), p, 309.