thorpe

plural thorpes

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of thorp (“village”).

   A plague upon the people fell, / A famine after laid them low, / Then thorpe and byre arose in fire, / For on them brake the sudden foe; […]

   1870, Alfred Tennyson, “The Victim”, in The Holy Grail and Other Poems, London: Strahan and Co., […], →OCLC, stanza I, page 193

plural Thorpes

1. uncountableusuallyA common habitational surname from Old English.

   Jeremy Thorpe, British Liberal Party leader.

2. Any of many placenames in England:
   1. uncountableusuallyA settlement in Sockbridge and Tirril parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, previously in Eden district. (OS grid ref NY4926).
   2. uncountableusuallyA village and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK1550).
   3. uncountableusuallyA hamlet in Lockington parish, East Riding of Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE9946).
   4. uncountableusuallyA hamlet in Mablethorpe and Sutton parish, East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire (OS grid ref TF4982).
   5. uncountableusuallyA small village in Haddiscoe parish, South Norfolk district, Norfolk (OS grid ref TM4398).
   6. uncountableusuallySynonym of Thorpe St Andrew, Norwich, Norfolk.

      Synonyms: Thorpe St Andrew, Norwich, Norfolk

   7. uncountableusuallyA small village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, previously in Craven district (OS grid ref SE0161).
   8. uncountableusuallyA small village and civil parish (served by East Stoke with Thorpe Parish Council) in Newark and Sherwood district, Nottinghamshire (OS grid ref SK7649).
   9. uncountableusuallyA village in Runnymede borough, Surrey (OS grid ref TQ0268).
3. uncountableusuallyAn unincorporated community in Dallas County, Missouri, United States.