Thorpe in the Glebe, in the Rushcliffe Wapentake of Nottinghamshire, comes from Old Norse þorp ‘a secondary settlement, a dependent outlying farmstead or hamlet’.
The affix glebe goes back through French to Late Latin gleba, ‘clod, lump,’ presumably a geological allusion, alternating with ‘in the Clotts’ in some early forms from Old English clot(t) ‘clod, lump’ used in the same sense.
