Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Limber Grange or Davis Streights F.m 1828 Bry

• Davis Straits 1830 Gre

Etymology

, Limber Grange or Davis Streights F .m1828 Bry, Davis Straits 1830Gre . Dr Rod Ambler draws attention to Greenland Fm infra and suggests that there could well have been a clear link between the names Greenland and Davis Straits . He points out that Edward Gillet , A History of Grimsby , Oxford 1970 , pp. 178 – 79 , has shown that whaling voyages were made to Greenland and the Davis Straits by two Grimsby - based ships between 1803 and 1821 . Dr Ambler comments “ the two farm names suggest some sort of link with activity in Grimsby ” . It certainly seems most likely that Davis Straits Fm and Greenland Fm do reflect Grimsby whaling activities in the early 19th century , though the historical connections between the Great Limber names and Grimsby has not so far been discovered . For the late occurrence of grange , cf. Croxton Grangein Croxton supra .