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Thorp (other)
A thorp is a hamlet or village. Thorp or THORP may also refer to: Places United Kingdom * Thorp, former hamlet, now within Royton, Greater Manchester * Thorp Arch, West Yorkshire, a small village and civil parish near Wetherby * Thorp Perrow Arboretum, North Yorkshire * Thorp Academy United States * Thorp, Michigan, ghost town * Thorp, Washington * Thorp, Wisconsin, a city * Thorp, Clark County, Wisconsin, a town * Thorp Branch Antarctica * Thorp Ridges People * Angie Thorp * Ash Thorp * Bert D. Thorp (1869–1937), American politician * Callum Thorp (born 1975), Australian professional cricketer * Carl Thorp * Charles Thorp (1784–1862), English churchman, Archdeacon of Durham and first warden of the University of Durham * David Thorp * Don Thorp (born 1962), former professional American football player * Edward O. Thorp (born 1932), American mathematics professor, author, hedge fund manager and blackjack player * Eline Thorp * Gil Thorp, fictional protagonist of eponymous Ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thorp
''Thorp'' is a Middle English word for a hamlet or small village. Etymology The name can either come from Old Norse ''þorp'' (also ''thorp''), or from Old English (Anglo-Saxon) ''þrop''. There are many place names in England with the suffix "-thorp" or "-thorpe". Those of Old Norse origin are to be found in Northumberland, County Durham, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, and Suffolk. Those of Anglo-Saxon origin are to be found in southern England from Worcestershire to Surrey. Care must be taken to distinguish the two forms. Variations of the Anglo-Saxon suffix are "-throp", "-thrope", "-trop" and "-trip" (e.g. Adlestrop and Southrope). Old English (Anglo-Saxon) ''þrop'' is cognate with Low-Saxon ''trup''/''trop''/''drup''/''drop'' as in Handrup or Waltrop, Frisian ''terp'', German ''torp'' or ''dorf'' as in Düsseldorf, the 'Village of the river Düssel', and Dutch ''dorp''. It also appears in Lorraine place-names as ''-troff'' such as Grosbliederstr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |