Owthorpe

Owthorpe

Owthorpe, in the Bingham Wapentake of Nottinghamshire, comes from the Old Norse male personal name Úfi and the Old Norse element þorp ‘a secondary settlement, a dependent outlying farmstead or hamlet’.

Ascribed Culture

Collection

Viking Names

Keywords

male_name, Nottinghamshire, place-name

Further information

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Acknowledgements

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

Image © Mat Fascione, 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), pp. 238-239.