Fregsthorpe
Early-attested site in the Parish of Ketton
Historical Forms
- Frygisthorp' 1300–20 DC
- Fregisthorp' 1322 Wyg
- Fregisthorpe 1550 Pat
- Fregthorp 1610 Speed 1620 Map
- Fregsthorpe Close 1638 DC
Etymology
'Friðegist's outlying farmstead', v. þorp . According to DB, a man called Fredgis held land in neighbouring Empingham in the reign of Edward the Confessor. The pers.n. is OScand Friðgestr which appears in late OE sources as Friðegist , or, as in the Liber Vitae of Thorney Abbey, as Freðegyst , Freþegist , v. Feilitzen 254–5, SPNLY 86. The settlement lay at approximately SK 991 049, v. MER 24.
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- Hunt's Lodge
- Ketton Grange
- Ketton Hall
- Ketton Ho
- Ketton Park
- Ketton Quarries
- the Limes
- Long Barn Fm
- Manor Fm
- the Mount
- Northwick Cottages
- the Nursery
- Ketton Church
- Old Windmill
- Aldgate, Aldgate Fm
- Blackground
- Bull Lane
- Cats Hill Spinney
- the Cottage
- Cuckoo Lodge
- the Firs
- Geeston Ho
- the Grange
- the Green
- the Holmes
- Home Fm
- Old Heath Lodge
- the Priory
- Rock Villa
- Rutland Ho
- Stocks Hill
- the Vale
- the Vicarage
- Warren Cottages
- Ketton Cottage
- the Orchards