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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.

Rogerthorpe

Early-attested site in the Parish of Badsworth

Historical Forms

  • Rogartorp, Rugartorp 1086 DB
  • Thorp 1177–93 YCh1643
  • Torp Rogeri 1121–7 YCh 1215 ChR 1216 Nost5
  • Rogertorpe 1121 Tockw
  • Rogerthorp(e) 1195–1215 YCh 13,1329 YDxiii,47 1431 YDx 1619 FF
  • Rogertrope 1579 WillY

Etymology

v. þorp 'outlying farmstead'. The first el. is probably the ContG pers.n. Roger (cf. Forssner 217), possibly here replacing an earlier ON  Hróðgeirr .