Barkby Thorpe sign
© Mat Fascione, via Geograph, CC BY-SA 2.0

Barkby Thorpe

Barkby Thorpe, Leicestershire

Barkby Thorpe, in the East Goscote Hundred of Leicestershire, is originally a simplex name from Old Norse þorp ‘a secondary settlement, a dependent outlying farmstead or hamlet’. This was a secondary settlement dependent on adjoining Barkby, thus the affix.

Ascribed Culture

Collection

Viking Names

Keywords

Leicestershire, place-name, simplex, thorpe

Further information

This object is related to Barkby Thorpe, Leicestershire.
Find out about Barkby Thorpe, Leicestershire.

Acknowledgements

Image © Mat Fascione, via Geograph, CC BY-SA 2.0

References

Barrie Cox, A Dictionary of Leicestershire and Rutland Place-Names. Nottingham: English Place-Name Society (2005), p. 6.

Barrie Cox, The Place-Names of Leicestershire III. English Place-Name Society LXXXI (2004), p. 29.

Related items

Barkby

More items

Sysonby
Swithland
Slawston
Cosby
Carlton Curlieu
Brentingby
Croxton Kerrial
Krok
South Croxton
Bark
Barkby