Thorpe, in the Newark Wapentake of Nottinghamshire, is simplex name from Old Norse þorp ‘a secondary settlement, a dependent outlying farmstead or hamlet’. Probably regarded as an outlying settlement from Newark.
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J.E.B. Gover, Allen Mawer and F.M. Stenton, The Place-Names of Nottinghamshire. English Place-Name Society Volume XVII (1940), p. 218.
