Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Frisebi 1086 DB c.1130 LeicSurv 1199,1200 Cur

• Frisebie 1086 DB

• Friseby 1221 Fine 1221 Ass 1355,1403 Pat

• Friseby iuxta Galby 1306,1313,1328 Banco

• Frissebi 1200 Cur

• Frisseby 1338 AD 1387 Pat

• Fryseby a.1250 Peake 1255 AD 1332 SR 1370 Ass

• Fryseby iuxta Gauby 1255 AD

• Fryseby iuxta Galby 1327,1328 IpmR

• Frysseby 1370 Ipm

• Frysby 1385 AD 1399 Pat 1528 Visit 1535 VE

• Frysby iuxta Galby 1385 AD

• Frisby 1550 AAS 1610 Speed

• Frisby juxta Galby 1611 LML

• Fresebi 1166 LN

• Freseby 1166 RBE

• Fresseby 1416 Nichols

• Old Frisby 1835 O

Etymology

'The farmstead of the Frisians', v. Frīsa , Frēsa , bȳ . The township is distinguished by the suffix ~ iuxta Galby (with MLat  iuxta 'next to') from Frisby on the Wreake in East Goscote Hundred, v. Lei 280. The site of a deserted medieval village, it is styled Old Frisby 1835 O. Galby lies a half-mile to its south-west.