Lower Threapwood & Upper Threapwood
Major Settlement in the Parish of Threapwood
Historical Forms
- Threpewood 1548 Pat
- Threpwoode 1550 MinAcct
- Threapwood 1751 Sheaf
- Lower Threape Wood & Upper Threape Wood 1842 OS
Etymology
'disputed wood', v. þrēap , wudu , cf. Wo 219. Threapwood is probably so named from the fact that it was in neither Ch nor Fl, yet in both. Sheaf3 32 (7232) and Hanmer 143–5, report that in 1773 Threap Wood or Threap Common , of about three hundred acres, was reputed to be in no county, parish, town or hamlet; no land tax or rates were payable, the sheriffs of Cheshire and Flintshire had no jurisdiction there, nor had the Justices of the Peace, and apparently no civil court could deal with cases arising within the area. The name recurs at 3 89, 96, and the analogous þrēap-hyrst appears in Threaphurst 1287, 288, Threphurstisclok 1 66, and possibly in Threeper's Drumble 354.