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.

Higher Thorps & Lower Thorps

Other OS name in the Parish of Rochdale

Historical Forms

  • Thorp's 1738 PRSad

Etymology

, Thorp 's 1738PRSad , v. þorp ' outlying farmstead ' .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement