Princethorpe
Major Settlement in the Parish of Princethorpe
Historical Forms
- Prandestorpe 1221 Ass
- Pransthorpe 1329 FF 1330 Pat
- Prenestorp 1232,1247 Ass 1262 FF
- Prenesthorpe 1276 RH 1332 SR
- Prenesthorpe super Dunnesmore 1288 Ass
- Primmesthorp 1262 Ass
- Prensthorp 1289,1330 1316 FA 1393 FF
- Prinsthorp super Dunesmor 1300 FF
- Prinnesthorp 1327 SR
- Pryncethorp 1411 FF
- Princethorp 1461 IpmR
- Prinstrop 1600 FF
- Princethorpe al. Princethropp(e) 1610 1739 Recov
- Prennesthorpe 1348 FF
Etymology
Dugdale (29) was doubtless on the right track when he wrote “As for the name it proceeds, doubtless, from some antient possessor thereof, the latter sillable, viz. thorpe , signifying a Village or Hamlet, for so in the Saxon time they were called: the Dutch to this day (whose language hath a great affinity with our old English) calling such Villages Dropes , pronouncing d instead of th. ” The pers. name involved would seem to be the name Præn found as the second name of a Kentish king in ASC (s. a. 796), later Pren , for which Ethelweard has the form Prend .Cf. Redin 34.