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.

Smalethorpe

Other OS name in the Parish of Roxby cum Risby

Historical Forms

  • Smalethorp' l12(14),e14(14) Drax
  • Smalethorp e13 Ch 1311
  • Smaletorp 1311 Pat

Etymology

( lost ) , Smalethorp 'l12 (14), e14 (14)Drax , Smalethorp e13(1311) Ch, Smaletorp 1311 Pat , ' the small secondary settlement, dependentoutlying farmstead or hamlet ' , v. smal(r) , þorp , a Scand compound ; there is no indication of its situation .