English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

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Easthorpe

Major Settlement in the Parish of Bottesford

Historical Forms

  • Estthorp c.1240 Rut
  • Estthorpe 1467 Pat 1531 Wyg
  • Estorp 1276 RH
  • Esthorp' Edw1 Rut 1320 LAS 1449,1458 Rut 1519,1521 Wyg
  • Esthorpe 1372 Nichols 1475 Pat 1524 Wyg 1534,1539 Fine
  • Esthorpp' 1486 Rut
  • Estrop' 1482 Wyg
  • Estropp' 1487 Rut 1488 Wyg
  • Estrope 1544 Rut
  • Eastroppe 1579 Fine
  • Eastropp 1626 LML
  • Eastthorpe 1584 Ipm
  • Easthorpe 1609 LML

Etymology

'The eastern outlying farmstead', v. ēast , þorp , cf. Westthorpe supra .