Etymology

Thorpe-le-Soken

Today it means: A village and civil parish in Tendring district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TM1822). Full definition →

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The story

From Torp (12th century) and Thorpe in ye Sooken (1612). Soken is from Old English sōcn, see soken.

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