Flaxby
Major Settlement in the Parish of Goldsborough
Historical Forms
- Flatesbi 1086 DB
- Flasceby 1158–81 YChvi l.12 RegAlbi,37d 1282 YI e.14 YDv 1379 PT
- Flacebie 1559 FF
- Flasseby 1316 Vill
- Flasbie 1563 PRAll
- Flaxby 1407 YDiii
Etymology
'Flat's farmstead', from the ON byname Flatr (gen.sg. Flats ) and bȳ . Cf. Flasby vi, 48infra . The medieval forms with -sce - regularly represent the sound -ts - (cf. EPN ii, 92) and the later form with Flax - is an inverted spelling for -z -, which arose in the dialect from ME ks and x as well as ts (cf. Kexbrough i, 318supra and Kex Beck 209infra for a similar inversion, and Phonol. § 44).
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- Brunton Lane
- Clareton Field
- Clareton Moor
- Lidget Lane
- Mill Field
- Shortsill
- Flaxby Moor
- Intakes
- Mill Hill
- Oakheads Hill
- Balfe Hill
- Sand Hill
- Ten Low Hill
- North Hills
- Spring Banks Ho
- Cockstone Hill
- Goldsborough Fields, Goldsborough Moor
- Great Dike
- Great Wood
- Gundrifs
- Kiln Pond
- Lane End
- Leys Pond
- Low Field
- Midgeley Gate
- Pikeshaw Wood
- Sand Hill
- White Bank
- White Rail Bank