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.

Dalby and Dalby Beck

Early-attested site in the Parish of Thornton Dale

Historical Forms

Dalbi, Dalby 1086 DB 1408 For

rivulum de Dalby 1619 NRS

Daleby 1251 NRS 1279 YI

Dawby 1500 NRS

Etymology

'Valley farm' v. dæl , by and Dalby (Bulm) 29supra .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Major Settlement