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.

Thrupp

Major Settlement in the Parish of Thrupp

Historical Forms

  • Trop' 1261 FF
  • Throp(e) 1393 Ipm 1407,1594 FF
  • Throppe 1547 AOMB411 1581 FF
  • Throupe 1594,1597 FF
  • Thorpe 1639 Inq
  • the Thrup 1779 Rudder

Etymology

v. þrop 'an outlying secondary farmstead'.