Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Thorp juxta Eboracum e.12 Whitby 1208 Cur 1219 Fees

• Thorp quae tenuit Osbertus Bustard 12 Whitby

• Thorp Bustard 1285 KI 1303 KF

• Bustardestorp 1234 FF

• Bustardt(h)orp(e) 1235 FF 1271,1301 YI 1303 KF 1500 YkCR

• Thorp Boistard 1237 FF

• Boystardthorp 1252 Ch

• Busterdthorp Flatt 1536 FF

• Busterthorp(e) 1543,1578,1623 FF

Etymology

v. þorp 'outlying farmstead'. The first el. is a feudal affix, the surname of the family of Bustard (l.ME  bustard 'bustard') who held the manor from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries. From a list of bounds in 1500 YkCR (Busterd layn (e ) (which also contains the same surname)—Knaysmire —Bustardthorp —the stone cross at the west end of Dringhouses), Bustardthorpe was between Knavesmire in York and Dringhouses; the Bustard Field (f.n. infra ) was, according to the TA map, east of Knavesmire (97–599493).