Allerby
Hamlet in Cumbria, England
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Allerby is a hamlet in the civil parish of Oughterside and Allerby, Cumbria, England.
Post townWIGTON
Toponymy
Allerby was originally called "'Ailward's', that is 'Æðelward's, Crosby', afterwards reduced to 'Ailward's bȳ'."[1] So, "the village or hamlet of Ailward". (Bȳ is Old English from the Old Norse býr, meaning 'village' or 'hamlet'.)
