Snitterby is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish was 215 at the 2001 census, increasing to 245 at the 2011 census. It is situated north from the city and

county town In the United Kingdom and Ireland, a county town is the most important town or city in a county. It is usually the location of administrative or judicial functions within a county and the place where the county's members of Parliament are elect ...

of Lincoln and south from Brigg. The place name, Snitterby, seems to contain an unrecorded

Old English Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, Anglo ...

personal name ''Syntra'', + ''bȳ'' (Old Norse), a farmstead, a village, so possibly, 'Syntra's farm or settlement'.

Eilert Ekwall Bror Oscar Eilert Ekwall (born 8 January 1877 in Vallsjö (now in Sävsjö, Jönköpings län), Sweden, died 23 November 1964 in Lund, Skåne län, Sweden), known as Eilert Ekwall, was Professor of English at Sweden's Lund University from 1909 to ...

suggests that this personal name is a derivative of the

word ''snotor, snytre'' meaning 'wise' The place appears in the

Domesday Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...

survey of 1086 as ''Esnetrebi'' (twice) and ''Snetrebi''. In the late thirteenth century a local resident,

Thomas de Snyterby Thomas de Snyterby (died 1316) was an English-born Crown official, cleric and judge in Ireland, in the reign of King Edward I of England.Ball, F. Elrington ''The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921'' London John Murray 1926 pp.57-8 He was the first of sev ...

, a

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by profession, moved to Ireland, where he became a

judge A judge is a person who presides over court proceedings, either alone or as a part of a panel of judges. A judge hears all the witnesses and any other evidence presented by the barristers or solicitors of the case, assesses the credibility an ...

of the

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. He returned to spend his last years in Snitterby but left behind family in Ireland, several of whom also became distinguished judges, including

Nicholas de Snyterby Nicholas de Snyterby, or Snitterby (died after 1354) was a Law Officer and judge in Ireland in the fourteenth century, who held office as King's Serjeant, Baron of the Court of Exchequer (Ireland) and justice of the Court of Common Pleas (Ireland) ...

, possibly his nephew, in the next generation and

Reginald de Snyterby Reginald de Snyterby (died 1436) was an Irish judge of the fifteenth century, from a family of English origin which produced several senior Irish judges.Ball p.175 He was probably born in Dublin, to a family which originated at Snitterby, Lincolnsh ...

, who died in about 1436.Ball p.175 Harlam Hill Lock - geograph

According to the 2001 Census, Snitterby had a population of 215, with 100% of the population being white, and 75% calling themselves Christian. The village is just off the A15 north-east of Caenby Corner, and south-east of Kirton in Lindsey. To the west, along the A15 (Ermine Street), the parish boundary is with

Grayingham Grayingham is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 123 It is situated south from Kirton in Lindsey, north-east from Gainsborough and 8 miles ...

. To the north, it meets

Waddingham Waddingham is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is geographically situated to the east of the A15 road, south-east from Scunthorpe and north from Lincoln. According to the United Kingdom Ce ...

, following Snitterby Beck, then eastwards to the New River Ancholme, and then southwards along the River Ancholme, where it meets

Owersby Owersby is a civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, situated about north-west from the market town of Market Rasen Market Rasen ( ) is a town and civil parish within the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, En ...

, to the east. Near Harlam Hill and Harlam Hill Lock, it meets

Bishop Norton Bishop Norton is a village and the main settlement of the civil parish of the same name in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The village is approximately north-west from the market town of Market Rasen, and is close to the A ...

, to the south. It passes south of White House Farm, and along

Atterby Atterby is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Bishop Norton, in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies north of Bishop Norton. In 1931 the parish had a population of 82. Atterby was formerly a township ...

Lane, then crosses Bishop Norton Road, and meets Ermine Street directly to the west. The village has a public house
The Royal Oak
a village hall, and a church,

St Nicholas Saint Nicholas of Myra, ; la, Sanctus Nicolaus (traditionally 15 March 270 – 6 December 343), also known as Nicholas of Bari, was an early Christian bishop of Greeks, Greek descent from the maritime city of Myra in Asia Minor (; modern-da ...

, which is in the Bishop Norton, Waddingham and Snitterby Group of churches. Until 2007 the church clock had to be wound up by hand once a week. A £10,000 grant paid for a new mechanism."Clock climber, 74, to get a rest"
BBC News. Retrieved 12 August 2011

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* {{authority control Villages in Lincolnshire Civil parishes in Lincolnshire West Lindsey District