English Place-name Society

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.

Scotney

Other OS name in the Parish of Roxby cum Risby

Historical Forms

  • Scotney(e) 1545 AOMB
  • Scotteney 1659,1662 Elw

Etymology

, 1659Elw , Scotney (e )1545AOMB 216 , Scotteney 1659, 1662Elw , cf. Scoteny croft 1287 Ipm , Far Scotney , Great Scotney 1767Stubbs , Scotney Hill 1768 (1791) LindDep (Plans ), 1824 O ; named from the de Scotney family , which held land in Roxby , certainly from the middle of the 12th century .