The name indicates that Skegness has its origin in the Danish period of
settlement of England although there is no reference to a village named
Skegness in the Domesday Book. The town's name means either "Skeggi's
headland" or "beard-shaped headland", depending on whether the
first element represents the personal name Skeggi (meaning 'bearded one'), one
of the Vikings who established the original settlement to the east of the
current town which was washed away by the sea in the early sixteenth century;
or the Old East Norse word
skegg
"beard".
Lying within the
