Hoby with Rotherby is a

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...

in Leicestershire, England. In the 2001 census it had a population of 594, reducing to 556 at the time of the 2011 census. It includes the villages of Hoby,

Rotherby Rotherby is a village and former civil parish, north east of Leicester, now in the parish of Hoby with Rotherby, in the Melton district, in the county of Leicestershire, England. In 1931 the parish had a population of 133. Features Rotherby h ...

, Ragdale and Brooksby. The parish is part of Melton local government

district A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municipa ...

, and within the Rutland and Melton constituency.

Toponymy

The name 'Hoby' derives from the

Old Norse Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian, is a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and their overseas settlemen ...

for 'farm/settlement on a hill spur'. The name 'Rotherby' means 'farm/settlement of Hreitharr'. The name 'Ragdale' means 'throat valley' probably suggesting that the valley was narrow, like a

throat In vertebrate anatomy, the throat is the front part of the neck, internally positioned in front of the vertebrae. It contains the pharynx and larynx. An important section of it is the epiglottis, separating the esophagus from the trachea (windpip ...

References

External links

Leicestershire Parish Councils: Hoby with Rotherby
Civil parishes in Leicestershire {{Leicestershire-geo-stub