English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

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Sculthorpe Spinney

Early-attested site in the Parish of North Luffenham

Historical Forms

  • Sculetorp 1086 DB
  • Sculetorp' 1220 Cur
  • Scultorp c1160 Dane 1199 FF 1220 Cur
  • Sculthorp(e) 1247 RGros 1248 FineR 1552 Conant
  • Sculthrope 1554,1555 ib
  • Skulthorp(e) 1256 For 1302 AddCh 1321 Pat
  • Schulthorp 1263 Ass 1286 Rut 1313 Deed
  • Schulthorppe 1297 Ass
  • Scoltorp' 1255 Cl
  • Scolthorp(e) 1255 1288 Rut 1313 Pat

Etymology

'Skúli's outlying farmstead', v. þorp , cf. Sculthorpe Nf. The OScand  pers.n. Skúli is an original by-name, cf. Olcel skýla 'to screen, to shelter', v. SPNLY 254. For later f.ns. arising from Sculthorpe, v. f.ns. (a) infra . The site of the deserted village is 'marked at SK 923 038 and SK 927 028 by a series of low banks and a possible hollow way' BrownArchSites 20.