Thorpe is a variant of the Middle English word ''
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 suffi ...
'', meaning hamlet or small village.
Thorpe may refer to:
People
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Thorpe (surname) Thorpe is a surname derived from the Middle English word ''thorp'', meaning hamlet or small village. Thorpe (disambiguation), Thorpe is found as the name of many places in England.
People with this name
* Adam Thorpe (born 1956), British author
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, including a list of people with the name
Places
England
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Thorpe, Cumbria
Sockbridge and Tirril is a small civil parish in Eden District, Cumbria. It had a population of 397 in 2001, increasing to 415 at the 2011 Census. It comprises the adjoining settlements of Tirril, Sockbridge and Thorpe. All three were once sepa ...
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Thorpe, Derbyshire
Thorpe is a village and civil parish in the English county of Derbyshire; it is on the Derbyshire/Staffordshire border, on the east bank of the River Dove, about four miles north of Ashbourne. The population of the civil parish as at the 2011 c ...
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Thorpe, East Lindsey, Lincolnshire
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Thorpe, East Riding of Yorkshire
Thorpe is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately south-east of the village of Middleton on the Wolds and north-west of the village of Leconfield.
It forms part of the civil parish
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Thorpe, North Yorkshire
Thorpe is a village and civil parish in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England. It is south of Grassington and north of Skipton. The population of the parish was estimated at 40 in 2010. At the 2011 the population remained less tha ...
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Thorpe, Nottinghamshire
Thorpe is a Nottinghamshire village or hamlet lying to the east of East Stoke about a mile off the A46 Fosse Way, and situated in the countryside southwest of Newark.
Historical
''"Thorpe-by-Newark is a village and parish, south-west of New ...
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Thorpe, Surrey
Thorpe is a village in Surrey, England, between Egham, Virginia Water and Chertsey. It is centred WSW of Charing Cross and its land adjoins the circle of the M25, near the M3 — its ward covers . Its traditional area with natural bou ...
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Thorpe by Trusthorpe
Trusthorpe is a small coastal village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated south from Mablethorpe and north from Skegness. It forms part of the parish of Mablethorpe and Sutton . About to the west is the ham ...
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Thorpe Hamlet
Thorpe Hamlet is a suburb of Norwich, to the east of the city centre, in the Norwich District, in the English county of Norfolk. It was constituted a separate ecclesiastical parish on 9 March 1852, from the civil parish of Old Thorpe, and in 19 ...
, Norwich, Norfolk
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Thorpe Hesley
Thorpe Hesley is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England, lying east of the M1 motorway at junction 35. The village has been included within the boundaries of Rotherham town since 1894, having previously be ...
, South Yorkshire
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Thorpe in Balne
Thorpe in Balne is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, England. It had a population of 176 at the 2001 census, increasing to 203 at the 2011 Census.
A moated site with a chapel and a fishpo ...
, South Yorkshire
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Thorpe in the Fallows, Lincolnshire
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Thorpe Latimer
Helpringham is a village and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies on the edge of the Fens, and southeast of Sleaford. It is noted for its Grade I listed St Andrew's Church.
History
In 1885, ''Kelly's D ...
, Lincolnshire
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Thorpe-le-Soken
Thorpe-le-Soken is a village and civil parish in the Tendring district of Essex, England located east of Colchester, west of Walton-on-the-Naze, Frinton-on-Sea and north of Clacton-on-Sea.
History
Since 2002, archaeological investigations ahead ...
, Essex
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Thorpe le Street
Thorpe le Street is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Hayton, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately south-east of the market town of Pocklington and north-west of the market town of Marke ...
, East Riding of Yorkshire
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Thorpe on the Hill, Lincolnshire
Thorpe on the Hill is a small village and civil parish in North Kesteven, Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a Counties of England, county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east ...
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Thorpe on the Hill, West Yorkshire
Thorpe on the Hill (or Thorpe) is a small village in West Yorkshire, England. The village falls within the Ardsley and Robin Hood ward of the Leeds Metropolitan Council. It was mentioned as ''"Torp"'' in the Domesday Book together with neighbour ...
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Thorpe St Andrew
Thorpe St Andrew is a town and civil parish in the Broadland district of Norfolk, England. It is situated on the River Yare, two miles east of the centre of Norwich, and is outside the boundary of the city. The civil parish has an area of and ...
, Norfolk
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Thorpe St Peter
Thorpe St Peter is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, about north-west from the town of Wainfleet.
Thorpe is listed in the ''Domesday Book'' of 1086 as having 33 households, two mills and a chur ...
, Lincolnshire
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Thorpe Tilney
Thorpe Tilney is a hamlet in the civil parish of Timberland in the district of North Kesteven, in the county of Lincolnshire, England. The hamlet is located directly south of Timberland, and stretches from Thorpe Tilney on the B1189 eastwards ...
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Thorpe Waterville
Thorpe Waterville is a village in the English county of Northamptonshire. It is combined with Achurch to form the ecclesiastical parish of 'Thorpe Achurch'; in turn this is added to another combined parish, Lilford-cum-Wigsthorpe, to form t ...
, Northamptonshire
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Thorpe Willoughby
Thorpe Willoughby is a village and civil parish in the Selby District of North Yorkshire, England. The village is situated just off the A1238 (a primary road, previously designated A63 prior to the construction of the Selby Bypass) and is in ...
, North Yorkshire
Elsewhere
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Thorpe, Missouri
Thorpe is an unincorporated community in Dallas County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The community lies just north of the Dallas-Webster
Webster may refer to:
People
*Webster (surname), including a list of people with the surname
*Webster ( ...
, a community in the United States
See also
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Littlethorpe, Leicestershire, England
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Littlethorpe, North Yorkshire, England
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Little Thorpe, County Durham, England
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Little Thorpe, West Yorkshire, a
location
In geography, location or place are used to denote a region (point, line, or area) on Earth's surface or elsewhere. The term ''location'' generally implies a higher degree of certainty than ''place'', the latter often indicating an entity with an ...
in England
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Thorpe Park (disambiguation) Thorpe Park is a theme park to the south of London.
Thorpe Park may also refer to:
* Thorpe Park (''The Inbetweeners''), an episode of a British sitcom called The Inbetweeners
* Thorpe Park Leeds, a business park in Leeds
See also
* Thorpe Camp ...
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Dorf (disambiguation)
Dorf may refer to:
* Dorf (surname)
* Dorf (character), portrayed by Tim Conway
* ''Dorf'', German term for 'village', see Town#Germany
* Dorf, Germany (disambiguation), various settlements
* Dorf, Switzerland
Dorf is a municipality in the ...
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Dorp (disambiguation)
Dorp means "village" in Dutch and Afrikaans. It may refer to:
Places
*Dorp, Netherlands, a neighborhood or other area within the city of Zoetermeer
*Het Dorp, Netherlands, literally "the village", a neighborhood or other area near Arnhem
* New Do ...
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