English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Stoneythorpe Hall

Early-attested site in the Parish of Long Itchington

Historical Forms

  • Torp 1199,1202 FF
  • Trop 1248 FF
  • Thorp(e) 1339 Pat 1576 S
  • Samsonesthowrp 1220 CartMisc
  • Thorp Samson 1310 ADi 1311 FF
  • Stonythorp 1309 FF 1354 Ipm 1401 ADi
  • Stone Thorpe 1629 FF

Etymology

v. þorp . “This, of a small Hamlet, is now reduc'd to one House, and hath its name from the rocky condition of the ground where it stands” (Dugdale 232). Thomas Sanson held the manor in 1202 (FF).

Places in the same Parish