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Survey of English Place-Names

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Southrop

Major Settlement in the Parish of Southrop

Historical Forms

  • Suthþrop 12 Glouc
  • Suththrop 1286 FF 1321 Ipm
  • Sudthropa c.1140 BM
  • Suthrop(e) 1211–13,1220 Fees 1221 Ass 1227,1232 FF 1236 Fees 1263–84 Glouc 1327 SR
  • Sutrop 1248 Ass
  • Suthorp(e) c.1215 Glouc 1317 Ch
  • Sutheorp 1285 FA
  • Southrop(e) 1290 Episc 1314 Ipm 1822 M
  • Southorp(e) 1297 Ipm 1303 FA 1675 Ogilby
  • Sowthethrop 1552 FF
  • Sowtherop(p)e 1584 Comm 1592 FF

Etymology

'The southern dependent farmstead', v. sūð , þrop . It is the most southerly of the þrops in the district. Cf. Southrop (O 354) and Hatherop (36supra ).