It's not in Cullen et al., which has no Applethorpe either (though there is one in Queensland).
Keith
@book{Cullen:Thorps,
title= "Thorps in a changing landscape",
author= "Paul Cullen and Richard Jones and David N. Parsons",
year= "2011",
series= "Explorations in Local and Regional History",
volume= 4,
publisher="University of Hertfordshire Press",
address= "Hatfield",
}
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From: The English Place-Name List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Linda Corrigan
Sent: 27 September 2011 14:51
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Subject: Re: Etrop
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.
Hope this helps
Linda
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<[log in to unmask]>, Anthony Appleyard <[log in to unmask]> writes
>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
>
>I motorcycled past it, and the trees round its pond, at the lane
>junction, many times in summer evenings before Manchester Airport's big
>west on-the-ground car park obliterated it.
>
