Risby
Early-attested site in the Parish of Walesby
Historical Forms
- Risebi 1086 DB 1191,1194,1195 P 1196 ChancR 1197,1198,1199 P 1202 FF 1205 P 1206 Ass 1206 Abbr 1219 Ass
- Riseb' 1185 Templar
- Risabi c.1115 LS
- Riseby 1193 P 1208 FF eHy3 Gilb 1409 Fees 1242–32
- Ryseby 1242–43 1256 FF
- Risseby 1385 Peace 1416 Ormsby
- Rysseby 1467–72 ECP
- Risby 1268 Ch 1276,1310 RH 1310 MM
- Risby iuxta Walesby 1373 FF
- Risby Hall 1824 O 1830 Gre
- Rysby 1275 RH 1287 Ipm 1467 WillsPCC
- Reysby 1519 DVi 1547 Pat
- Reisby in Walesby 1542–43 Dugdvi
Etymology
'The farmstead, village among brushwood', from ON hrís 'brushwood, shrubs' and bȳ, identical with Risby Sf, YE and LWR, as well as Rejsby and Risby in Denmark, as Fellows-Jensen points out, SSNEM 65. It is possible that Risby, found four times as a settlement-name in this country, is, in fact, a name transferred from Denmark, but, if this were so, it was presumably as topographically appropriate for the English names as for the Danish.