Scaleby
Major Settlement in the Parish of Scaleby
Historical Forms
- villa de Scales c.1180 Laner
- manerium de Scales 1227 BNB
- Schalebery, Schaleby c.1235 Laner
- Schaleby 1278 Ass 1400 Pat
- Scaleby c.1245 Laner
- Scalleby 1278,1279 Ass
- Scalesby 1279 Ass
- Scalby 1329 Banco 1363 Ipm 1585 FF
- Skaelby 1385 Pat
- Skailbye 1565–73 DepDu 1580 Border
Etymology
'bȳnear the shielings,' v. skáli . The 1235Laner forms show interchange of Scand by and English bery , bury , after the fashion of certain early forms in the Danelaw (cf. IPNs. v. bȳ , PN Nth xxii-xxiii).