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.

Eathorpe

Major Settlement in the Parish of Eathorpe

Historical Forms

  • Ethorpe 1232 Ass 1405 Deed
  • Eythorpe 1461 IpmR 1495 FF
  • Ethrope 1520 BM
  • Ethropp t.Hy8 AD
  • Ethorpe al. Ethrop 1649,1156 FF
  • Eythroppe al. Ethorpe 1649 Recov
  • Ethrupp 1741 ib

Etymology

“Hath its name from the situation thereof near the River; Ea in our old English signifying water, and thorpe a village or hamlet” (Dugdale 199). v. þorp and cf. Nuneaton supra 88. The place lies in a bend of the river Itchen.For the meaning here of thorp v. Stoneythorpe infra 134.

Places in the same Parish

None