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.

Overthrop

Early-attested site in the Parish of Hatherop

Historical Forms

  • Overthurppe 1574 MBks

Etymology

Overthrop (lost), Overthurppe 1574MBks , so-called to distinguish it from prec. v. uferra , þrop .