Caythorpe

Caythorpe, Nottinghamshire

Caythorpe, in the Thurgarton Wapentake of Nottinghamshire, probably comes from the Old Norse male personal name Káti and the Old Norse element þorp ‘outlying farm, settlement’. There is also a Caythorpe in Lincolnshire.

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Viking Names

Keywords

Nottinghamshire, place-name

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References

J.E.B. Gover, Allen Mawer and F.M. Stenton, The Place-Names of Nottinghamshire. English Place-Name Society Volume XVII (1940), pp. 159-160.