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.

Noblethorpe

Early-attested site in the Parish of Silkstone

Etymology

Noblethorpe, 1647 YDr, 1771, 1817 M. v. þorp 'outlying farmstead'.The first el. is ME  nobil 'noble', probably used as a surname and affix.

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site