Viking Names
Wickenby
Wickenby, in the South Riding of Lindsey of Lincolnshire, comes from the Old Norse male personal name Víkingr and the Old Norse element by ‘farmstead, village’. Alternatively the first element might be the appellative víkingr ‘a viking’, the source of the personal name, but the personal name seems more likely.
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Wrawby
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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Swadlincote
Swadlincote, in the Repton and Gresley Hundred of Derbyshire, probably comes from the Old Norse male personal name Svartlingr and the Old English element cot ‘cottage, hut, shelter, den’. However, it is possible that the first element may equally well represent the Old English male personal name Sweartling.
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North Thoresby
North Thoresby, in the Haverstone Wapentake of Lincolnshire, comes from the Old Danish male personal name Thorir (Old Norse Þórir) and Old Norse by ‘a farmstead, a village’. The affix North distinguishes it from South Thoresby, in the Calcewith Hundred of Lincolnshire, which has the same etymology.
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Algarthorpe
Algarthorpe, in the Broxtow Wapentake of Nottinghamshire, comes from the Old Norse male personal name Álfgeirr the Old Norse element þorp ‘outlying farm, settlement’. Algarthorpe is a deserted medieval village near Basford, Nottinghamshire.
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Trusthorpe
Trusthorpe, in the Calceworth Wapentake of Lincolshire, comes from the Old Norse male byname Strútr and Old Norse þorp ‘a secondary settlement, a dependent outlying farmstead or hamlet’. The same personal name appears in Strubby, Lincolnshire, but here the initial S- has been lost through dissimulation.
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Kirkby in Ashfield
Kirkby in Ashfield, in the Broxtow Wapentake of Nottinghamshire, comes from Old Norse kirkja ‘a church’ and Old Norse bý ‘a farmstead, a village’. Ashfield is an old district name from Old English aesc ‘ash-tree’ and feld ‘open country, unencumbered ground’, though no mention of it has been found except in connection to Kirkby and Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.
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Stixwould
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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Swarby
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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Aswarby
Aswarby, in the Aswardhurn Wapentake of Lincolnshire, is a compound name formed from the Old Norse male personal name Ásvarðr and Old Norse by ‘a farmstead, a village’. The construction of the place-name is identical with that of Aswardby, in the South Riding of Lindsey in Lincolnshire. Ásvarðr is also the first element in the district name, Aswardhurn, and presumably both the settlement and the district names refer to the same man. Aswarby is now a joint parish with Swarby.
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Denby
Denby, in the Morleyston and Litchurch Hundred of Derbyshire, takes its name from the Old English ethnonym Dene ‘a Dane’ and Old Norse by ‘a farmstead, a village’. Traditionally, the place-name has been interpreted as referring to a settlement of Danes. However, the exact implications of such a name are not yet fully understood and are the subject of ongoing work by Dr Jayne Carroll of the Institute for Name-Studies, University of Nottingham.