Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Risebi 1086 DB c1128 ChronPetro 12 LS c1115 P 1192 ChancR 1196 P 1197,1198,1199 CurR 1199 P 1200,1201,1202,1203,1204,1206

• Riseby c1200 BS 1202 FF 1209–35 LAHW 1242–43 Fees 1246 Ipm 1272 Ass 1279 Ch 1343 Roche 1526 Sub

• Risebie 1576 LER

• Ryseby 1237 RRG 1291 Tax 1302 Pat 1304 Ipm 1305 Cl 1312 Ch 1374 Peace 1383 Ch

• Rysebye 1576 Saxton

• Risabi c1115 LS

• Risbi 1212 Fees

• Risby 1254 ValNor 1330 Pat 1333 Cl 1346 Orig 1371 Ipm 1372 Fine

• Rysby c1279 RRGr 1333 Pat 1343 NI 1347 Pat

• Rysbye 1610 Speed

• Risseby 1275 RH 1402 FA

• Rysseby 1351 Pat 1396 Peace

• Reseby R1 Ch 1232

• Reysbye 1535–46 MinAcct 1536–37 Dugdvi 1551 Pat

• Reysby 1537–38 Dugdvi 1562 Yarb

• Reisbye 1551 Pat 1600,1603 Elwes

• Reisbie 1657 ib

• Magna Riseby 1316 FA

• Magna Risby 1327 SR

• Magna Rysby 1328 Banco 1332 SR

• magna Reseby 1526 Elw

• Parva Riseby 1316 FA

• Parva Rysby 1317 FF 1431 FA

• Parva Risby 1327 SR

• “Little” Rysby 1434 Cl

• Overrisseby 1451 Cl

• Vpper Resbye 1589 AddCh

• Upper Reasby 1696 Pryme

• High Risby 1824 O

• Netherrysby, Nethyr Rysby 1428 FA

• Nether Resby 1589 AddCh

• Nether Risbye 1622 Elwes

• Low Risby 1675 1824 O

Etymology

'The farmstead, village among brushwood', from ON  hrís 'brushwood, shrubs' and bȳ, identical with Risby PN L 3, 173 and Risby Sf and YE, as well as Rejsby and Risby in Denmark. It is possible that Risby, found four times as a settlement-name in England, is in fact a name transferred from Denmark. If this were so, it was presumably as topographically appropriate for the English names as for the Danish.