English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Somerby

Parish in the County of Leicestershire

Etymology

White 1846 notes that part of the parish of Somerby is in the Peculiar Jurisdiction of Rothley in West Goscote Hundred.

Major Settlements