What is "manby"

Manby is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, and lies approximately east from Louth. The 2001 Census recorded a village population of 833, reducing to 759 at the 2011 Census.

Manby contains a village post office and school. Other amenities, including a primary school, the Lancaster Inn public house (formerly the Manby Arms), two village shops, and an Italian restaurant, are in the conjoined village of Grimoldby, separated from Manby by the B1200 road.

Manby scout group, the 1st Manby, has existed for 60 years. It is one of only two scout groups in the area to include all scouting sections: Beavers, aged 6–8; Cubs, aged 8–10; Scouts, aged 11½–14; and Explorers, aged 14–18. The other is the 6th Skegness.

Manby is a surname, and may refer to:

• Aaron Manby (ironmaster) (1776–1850), ironmaster and civil engineer
• Sir Alan Reeve Manby (1848–1925), Surgeon-Apothecary In Ordinary to the Prince of Wales at Sandringham and later Physician Extraordinary
• Charles Manby (1804–1884), civil engineer and son of Aaron Manby
• Dave Manby, canoeist or kayaker
• Frederic Edward Manby (1845–1891), surgeon and Mayor of Wolverhampton 1888/1889, elder brother to Alan Reeve Manby
• Captain George William Manby FRS (1765–1864), inventor of the Manby Mortar and the first portable pressurised fire extinguisher
• Joel Manby
• Percy Alan Farrer Manby (1877–1940), Supreme Court Judge Straits Settlements and Federation of Malay States
• Thomas Manby (1769–1834), British naval officer