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.

Alverthorpe

Early-attested site in the Parish of Wakefield

Historical Forms

  • Alvelthorp 1199 Ch 1232
  • Alvirthorp(e) 1274–1313 WCR
  • Aluerthorp(e), Alverthorp(e) 1285 WCR 1291 DodsN 1321 WCR 1452 Brett 1596 ADi
  • Alluerthorpe 1498 FF
  • Allerthorp(e) 1467,1468 DodsN 1543 FF 1551 TestLds 1560 WillY
  • Allathrope 1520 WillY
  • Alerthorpe 1590 NCWills
  • Ollerthorpe 1589 FF 1603 NCWills

Etymology

'Ælfhere's outlying farmstead', from the OE  pers.n. Ælfhere (in the uninflected gen. as in Allerton pt. iv infra or Northallerton YN 210) and þorp . On the form Oller - cf. Phonol. § 5.

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site