Fenby
Major Settlement in the Parish of Ashby cum Fenby
Historical Forms
- Fendebi 1086 DB
- Fenbi hundred 1086 DB
- Fembi c.1115 LS
- Fenbi 1190,1191,1192 P
- Fenb' 1204 1238–41 Fees
- Fenby 1231 Cl 1231 Ch 1242–43 Fees c.1276 LNQvii 1311 Pat 1312 Fine 1312 Orig 1327 SR 1328 Ipm 1347 Cor
- Fenbe 1498 Pat
- Fenneby 1261 FF 1275,1276 RH 1295 Ipm 1311 YearBk 1311 Ipm 1362 et passim
- Feneby 1338 HarlCh
- Fanneby 1299 Pat 1300 Orig
- Fannebie 1556 CA
Etymology
'The farm, village in the fen', v. fenn , bȳ , an Anglo-Danish hybrid with the first el. OE fenn. It is most likely to be a partial Scandinavianization of an earlier OE p.n., perhaps Fenton, with a similar meaning. The name is represented today by Fenby Fm, which lies in what must have been a fenny area on the lower slope of the Wolds.