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Survey of English Place-Names

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Coneythorpe

Major Settlement in the Parish of Goldsborough

Historical Forms

  • Cunnigestorp' 1200 Cur
  • Cun(n)ingesthorp 1201 Abbr 1293 QW
  • Cuningstropp 1544 PRAld
  • Coningesthorp, Conyngesthorp 1301 YI 1316 Vill 1388 MinAcct
  • Connynstroppe 1564 PRAll
  • Conesthorp 1505 Ipm
  • Conestrup(e) 1657,1660 PRFrn
  • Conystropp(e), Conistropp(e) 1559 FF 1587 KnaresWill 1614 FF

Etymology

'The king's outlying farmstead', v. kunung , þorp , cf. Coneysthorpe YN 48. King Edward had a manor in Clareton (infra ) and the name may have described this.