Scrooby
Major Settlement in the Parish of Scrooby
Historical Forms
- Scrobi 1086 DB 1185 P
- Scroby 1225 Ebor 1342 NI
- Skroby 1267 Pat 1280 Ass 1520 NtIpm
- Scrobby 1280 Ass
- Scorby 1527 LP
- Scruby 1557 Wills 1675 Ogilby
- Scrowbye 1582 FF
- Skrowbe 1593 Wills
- Scrooby(e) 1601 1627 Recov
Etymology
The interpretation of this name depends a good deal on the question whether we are justified in identifying the place with the Scroppen þorpe of BCS 1044. The two places were certainly very close to one another and they may have been identical.The site of Scrooby was included within the bounds of Scroppen þorpe . Skroppa is on record as a woman's name in Icelandic and it may be that scroppan is an anglicised weak gen. sg. of it, but if so we should have expected a development of Skroppuby to Scropby , Scrobby and the like, rather than to Scrooby , Scruby .There is also an ON man's name Skropi which by direct addition to by might yield Scrobi , but Skropi would be a good deal more difficult to associate with scroppa . There is really a tangle of possibilities here which it is impossible for us now to unravel and we must be content to take Scrooby as a by-name with a personal name as the first element, and attempt no further definition.