Gunthorpe

Gunthorpe, Nottinghamshire

Gunthorpe, in the Thurgarton Wapentake of Nottinghamshire, comes from the Old Norse female personal name Gunnhildr and the Old Norse element þorp ‘outlying farm/settlement’.

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Collection

Viking Names

Keywords

Nottinghamshire, place-name

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Acknowledgements

Image © Alan Murray-Rust, via Geograph, CC BY-SA 2.0

References

J.E.B. Gover, Allen Mawer and F.M. Stenton, The Place-Names of Nottinghamshire. English Place-Name Society Volume XVII (1940), p. 167.