Woodthorpe

English

Etymology

From Old English wudu (“wood”) + þorp (“village”).

Proper noun

Woodthorpe (countable and uncountable, plural Woodthorpes)

1. A hamlet in Chesterfield district, Derbyshire, England.
2. A hamlet (unparished) south of Loughborough, Charnwood district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK5417).
3. A suburb of York, North Yorkshire, England.
4. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Woodthorpe is the 10941^st most common surname in England, belonging to 534 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Woodthorpe”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.