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The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Thorpe Hall, entered under the hundred of Burton in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Burton

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Thorpe Hall is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

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Thorpe Hall in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Thorpe Hall, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Land of Count Alan

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Thorpe Hall is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

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Thorpe Hesley in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Thorpe Hesley, entered under the hundred of Strafforth in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Strafforth

The Meaning of the Name

The name Thorpe Hesley is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word lēah, a woodland clearing or glade. The first element is most likely a personal name or an early descriptive term, now difficult to recover with certainty. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ‘a clearing’.

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Thorpe Hill in the Domesday Book (1086)

Thorpe Hill appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Bulford in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Thorpe Hill at 0.1 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Thorpe Hill supported a recorded population of 3 villagers, 3 smallholders.

The survey records Thorpe Hill’s value at 5d in 1086. No pre-Conquest figure survives – not unusual in the North, where records were disrupted by the Harrying and by the patchy coverage of the survey.

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Thorpe Hill in the Domesday Book (1086)

Thorpe Hill appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Bulford in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Bulford

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Thorpe Hill is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

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Thorpe Hill in the Domesday Book (1086)

Thorpe Hill appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Burghshire in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Burghshire

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Thorpe Hill is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

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Thorpe Hill in the Domesday Book (1086)

Thorpe Hill appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Holderness [South Hundred] in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Holderness [South Hundred]

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Thorpe Hill is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

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Thorpe in the Domesday Book (1086)

Thorpe is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Craven in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Craven

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Thorpe is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

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Thorpe in the Domesday Book (1086)

Thorpe is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Hamston in Derbyshire.

Other Settlements in Hamston

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Thorpe is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

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