Thorpe Langton
Major Settlement in the Parish of Thorpe Langton
Historical Forms
- Torp 1086 DB c.1130 LeicSurv 1156 Ch 1318 MHW 1220 Fees 1243
- Thorp c.1130 LeicSurv 12 Peake 1242 Fees 1309 Cl 1316 Wyg 1519 EpCB 1523 MktHPR 1548 Pat 1576 Saxton
- Thorpe 1267 Pat 1333 SlCart 16 Pat 1357,1359
- Thorpp' 1359 Wyg
- Thorppe 1427 Peake
- Trop 1156 Ch 1318
- Throp 1475 MktHPR
- ~ iuxta Langeton' c.1130 LeicSurv 1278 Banco 1382,1386 Peake
- ~ Langeton' 1327 SR 1346 AD 1403 Fine 1472 Peake
- ~ Langton 1378 Pat 1385 Fine 1439 MktHPR 1450 RTemple
- ~ Lan(c)kton 1506 Ipm 1536 Braye 1610 Speed
Etymology
'The outlying farmstead', v. þorp . This was a secondary settlement of Langton, v. East Langton, Church Langton supra and note MLat iuxta 'next to'.