Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Fultorp 12th Finc

• Fultorp' early13th Ct

• fultorp' c.1220×30 ib

• ffultorp' c.1220×30(p),c.1310(p) Spec

• Fulthorp 1198×1204 GD 1311 RPD 1336×7 IPM 1353 Spec 1371 Wills 1399(p)etfreqto1517 IPM

• fulthorp' c.1270×80 Spec 1349,1351 Lond

• fulthorp 1328 Spec

• Fulthorp' 1387(p),1389(p) Rav

• Full Thorp 1821 Lond

• Fulthorpe 1256 GD 1363 GT

• Fulethorp 1261×73 GD 1268 Spec

• Fulethorpe c.1294 Bek 18th

• ffulthorp early13th Spec 15th Lond 1307

• ffulthorpe c.1292 GD 1351 Lond 1361 Ct 1372 GD 1706,1803 Rob

• ffulthorp' 14th Ct 1316 Lond 1323(p),1361(p) Spec 1382 Hatf 1384 Spec 1387×8 Spec

• ffulthorpp 1360 Spec

• ffulthorpp' 1382 Lond

• Foulthorp 1313 RPD

• ffoulthorp' 1315 Spec

• ffolthorp' 1323 Spec

• ffulthroppe 1586 Salvin

• Fulthrop 1623 SurteesIII77

• Fulthrope 1666×7 GD

Etymology

'Dirty hamlet', OE  fūl + þorp. Adj. fūl is usually compounded with words related to water, e.g. Fulbrooke Buckinghamshire SP 2513, Fulbourn Cambridgeshire TL 5256, Fulwell Durham NZ 3959 and the numerous Fulfords; cf., however, Full Sutton East Yorkshire SE 1455, 'foul Sutton' from 13 cent., PNYE 185.