Alsthorpe
Early-attested site in the Parish of Burley
Historical Forms
- Alestanestorp 1086 DB
- Alestanthorp 1282 IpmR
- Alstanthorp Edw1 Ipm
- Alestorp(e) 1232 RHug 1234 Pat
- Alesthorp(e) 1300 Ipm 1319,1334 Pat 1350 Ipm
- Alstorp 1202 Ass
- Alsthorp(e) 1297 Ass 1324 FF 1428 FA
- Austhorpe 1610 Speed
- Austrop 1548 Pat
- Awstroppe alias Alstroppe 1677 Deed
Etymology
'(E)alhstān's outlying farmstead', v. þorp . The DB form shows a glide-vowel e which has replaced medial h . For the OE pers.n., v. Feilitzen 152–3. The settlement seems to have disappeared by the middle of the sixteenth century, probably as the result of enclosure.For field-names arising from the name of this lost settlement which lay near Chapel Farm, v. f.ns. (a) infra .
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- Alstoe Ho
- Bottom Mill Covert
- Brick Kiln Spinney
- Brooke Fm
- Brownswell's Covert
- Burley Bushes
- Burley on the Hill
- Burley Park
- Burley Wood
- Crow Spinney
- Engine Pond
- Glebe Farm Ho
- Millfield Spinney
- Turnover Bridge
- Chestnut Fm
- Egg Spinney
- Flint's Covert
- Hollow Close Covert
- Mount Alstoe
- Park Fm
- Park Lodge
- Poor Close Covert
- Purveyor's Covert
- the Vicarage
- Cow Close Fm
- Eight Riding Tree
- Gate House Bridge
- Horse and Groom P.H.
- Toll Bar
- Chapel Fm
- Dog Kennel Spinney
- Exton Grange
- the Hermitage
- Solomon's Hut
- Watkin's Gorse