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.

Thorp

Early-attested site in the Parish of Calverley

Historical Forms

  • Thorp(e) 1585 1597 FF 1613 WillC 1704 LPTax
  • in Idle 1571 WillY 1654 WillS
  • Idelethorpe 1704 LPTax

Etymology

Thorp, Thorp (e )1585 FF, Surv 192, 1597 FF, 1613 WillCet freq to 1704 LPTax, (in Idle ) 1571 WillY, 1654 WillS, Idelethorpe 1704 LPTax. v. þorp 'an outlying farmstead'.

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Places in the same Parish

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