"Applethorpe" to "Etrop" looks like rather a severe shortening. Could "Etrop" be a persistent handwritten abbreviation which got into speech? Other examples of inkhorn forms getting into spoken usage are: "Sarisberie" "(= Salisbury") written as "Sar~" with tilde which was misread as "Sarum" which became a usual name, and the many Latinisms in placenames, e.g. Peover Superior / Over Peover in Cheshire.
(Please, where was Etrop Hollow? It is not on recent maps (even before the airport came.)
Anthony Appleyard <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Please does anyone know the origin of the name Etrop, in Etrop Green
> Farm? It is on the old map at this link, a little north of the
> crossroads marked "Ringway"
> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Aa_oldwythenshawe_00.jpg
Linda Corrigan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> In The Place-Names of Cheshire, John Dodgson cites earlier (than 1831,
Bryant's map of Cheshire) records of Etrop Green and Hollow as Athrop
(1535 Ormerod's 'History of Cheshire' edited Helsby, 1882), Athroppe
(1541) and Aplethropp (1558 also from the later edition of Ormerod). As
to derivation he says 'perhaps from throp 'outlying farm'. The 'Aple-'
version is interesting perhaps suggesting OE aeppel/ON apaldr as the
first element.
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