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‘farmstead or village of the Northmen or Norwegian Vikings’, OE Northman + OScand. bý: Normanby Lincolnshire Normanebi (1086) (DB). Normanby North Lincolnshire Normanebi (1086) (DB). Normanby N. City & County of Yorks. Normanebi (1086) (DB). Normanby Redcar & Cleveland Northmannabi (c.1050). Normanby le Wold Lincolnshire Normane(s)bi (1086) (DB). Affix means ‘on the wolds’, from OE wald ‘high forest land’.
| Norley, Norham, Norfolk | |
| Normandy, Normanton, Norrington Common |
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