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.

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 .