Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Torp 1086 DB Hy2 Dugd p.1150 GarCh l.12 GarCart c.1200 Sloane 1253×58 RHug Hy3 Rut

• Thorp(e) c.1130 LeicSurv 1208,1219 Cur 1238 RGros

• Arnoldestorp 1214 P

• Erlesthorp(e) 1371 Cl 1404 Laz 1456 Nichols 1547 Fine

• Erlesthorp(e) al' Thorparnold 1535 VE

• Erllesthorp 1420 Cl

• Harlesthorpe 1537 Ipm

• Erlestroppe 1603 Ipm

• Erlesthorpe 1809 EnclA

• ~ Ernaldi Hy2 Nichols

• ~ Ernald 1238 RGros 1261 RGrav 1347 Cl 1352 WoCart 1449 Inqaqd 1420 WoCart 1449

• ~ Ernaud 1277 Ipm 1296 Pat

• ~ Ernold' c.1310(1449),1318(1449) WoCart 1361 1449 et passim

• ~ Arnald(e) 1254 Val c.1291 Tax 1445 Cl 1449 WoCart

• ~ Arnold(e) c.1291 Tax 1309 WoCart 1449 1449 Cl 1453

• ~ iuxta Melton(a) c.1200 Sloane 1318 Pat 1445 Cl

Etymology

'The outlying farmstead', v. þorp . Thorpe Arnold was a secondary settlement, presum. related in origin to Melton Mowbray rather than to Waltham on the Wolds, although by 1086 DB, Walter held Waltham and Thorpe together from Hugo de Grentemaisnil.

Ernald de Bosco held the manor in 1156 Ch, followed by three successors of the same name until at least 1318 Pat. They were stewards of the Earls of Leicester, hence the alternative name Erlesthorpe , v. eorl .