Hatherop
Major Settlement in the Parish of Hatherop
Historical Forms
- Etherop(e) 1086 DB 1284 Ipm
- Ethrop 1138 Glouc 1232 Ch
- Hadrop 1086 Glouc
- Haethrop 1139–48 Glouc
- Hetrop 1154–89 Glouc 1285 FA
- Hethrop 1154–89 Glouc 1221 Eyre 1281 Episc 1291 Tax
- Heythrop 1164–79 Glouc 1211–13 Fees p.1421 GloucHist
- Heytrop 1220 Fees 1249 FF
- Haytrop 1248 Ass
- Haythrop 1291 Tax
- Eythrop 1191,1200 Glouc
- Eytrop 1221 Ass
- Hatherop(e) 13 Glouc 1221 Eyre 1236,1251 Ch 1303 FA 1783 PR
- Hatheropp(e) 1316 FA 1544 FF 1722 PR
- Hatheruppe 1574 MBks 1584 Comm
- Het(h)erope Hy3 Monast
- Etherop Ed1 ib
- Hethrep 1287 QW
- Hatrop(e) 1275 Ipm 1291 Episc
- Hathrop(p)e 1287 Ass 1331 FF 1592 FF
- Hathorp 1675 Ogilby
Etymology
Since the village stands on the top of a hill overlooking the R. Coln, the name may mean 'lofty dependent farmstead' or 'farmstead on the height', v. hēah , þorp ; the spelling Hatherop at least suggests the possibility of OE hǣð 'heathland'. There is a certain ambiguity in the spellings, and forms like Etherope , Hatherop (e ), Het (h )erope with a medial -e - would also favour a compound of hǣð in which the medial -th - was regarded as belonging to the first el. and not to the second el. þrop , after the juncture of ð -ð was simplified to -ð -; Southrop (45infra ) has a few later spellings Sowtherop showing a similar treatment of ð -ð . It may be noted here that six of the examples of þrop in Gl are in this hundred between the lower reaches of the Coln and the Leach, Cockrup (30), Williamstrip (30), Boutherop (31), Netherton and Overthrop (infra ), Southrop (45), and Pindrup (165), and that the word þrop in these p.ns. is of English origin and not Scandinavian; it denoted a secondary outlying farmstead or colony from a larger and older settlement.