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Thorpe Thewles
Thorpe Thewles is a village which had history dating back to the 12th century. The village shares a parish with Grindon and is in the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees The Borough of Stockton-on-Tees is a unitary authority with Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough status in the counties of County Durham and North Yorkshire, England. The borough had a population of 191,600 in 2011. The main settlemen ..., County Durham, Northern England. It lies near the A177 road (England), A177 road between Stockton-on-Tees and Sedgefield. Origin of the name Thorpe is of Danish extraction and means farm, Thorp, and Thewles was likely the name of a family that possessed land here in the Middle Ages: the earliest occurrence of the full name is 'Thorpp' Thewles' in 1265. The surname Thewles probably comes from the Old English 'immoral', though the meaning of the placename is the Farm of the Thewles Family rather than, as sometimes reported, the Immoral Farm. The name has been confused as N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thorpe Thewles, Vane Arms And Village Green - Geograph
Thorpe is a variant of the Middle English word ''thorp'', meaning hamlet or small village. Thorpe may refer to: People * Thorpe (surname), including a list of people with the name Places England *Thorpe, Cumbria *Thorpe, Derbyshire *Thorpe, East Lindsey, Lincolnshire *Thorpe, East Riding of Yorkshire *Thorpe, North Yorkshire *Thorpe, Nottinghamshire *Thorpe, Surrey *Thorpe by Trusthorpe, Lincolnshire *Thorpe Hamlet, Norwich, Norfolk *Thorpe Hesley, South Yorkshire *Thorpe in Balne, South Yorkshire *Thorpe in the Fallows, Lincolnshire *Thorpe Latimer, Lincolnshire *Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex *Thorpe le Street, East Riding of Yorkshire *Thorpe on the Hill, Lincolnshire *Thorpe on the Hill, West Yorkshire *Thorpe St Andrew, Norfolk *Thorpe St Peter, Lincolnshire *Thorpe Tilney, Lincolnshire *Thorpe Waterville, Northamptonshire *Thorpe Willoughby, North Yorkshire Elsewhere *Thorpe, Missouri, a community in the United States See also *Littlethorpe, Leicestershire, England *Littl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
