Tithe map extract, showing Hornby, also in Melling with Wrayton parish, Lonsdale Hundred, lying at the confluence of the rivers Wenning and Lune. Called Hornebiin Domesday Book in 1086, Horneis probably an Early Scandinavian personal name. Wennais thought to be an Old English personal name, while the Lune – calledLoin– in the earliest documents, seems to be an Old English name meaning ‘health-giving river’.