Lois Henderson
What’s in a Name?
Cleethorpes is taken as deriving its name from a combination of clee, meaning ‘clay’ and thorpes, with the latter word being the Old English or Old Norse word for villages. The town once consisted of the three small villages (or thorpes) of Itterby, Oole and Thrunscoe, which formed part of an all-encompassing parish called Clee (“Cleethorpes”, [s.d.]).
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In A History of Clee and the Thorpes of Clee: Being a Brief Account of the Townships of Clee, Hoole, Itterby, Thrunscoe, Weelsby, Holm, Cleethorpes, New Clee, Beaconthorpe, and New Cleethorpes; Comprising the Parish of Clee in the County of Lincoln, local historian and pastor of the Congregational Church in Lymm, Cheshire, C. Ernest Watson (1901:3), describes the environment surrounding present-day Cleethorpes as it was at the beginning of the twentieth century, with “stumps and roots of trees which may be seen here in common with other places on the English coast, at the far low-water mark. Silent witnesses, these, of a time when one of the great forests covered tracts which have since been successively river-bed, sandflats, marsh-lands and meadows.”
So Cleethorpes was originally a parish of three villages that grew into town and its name took part in turns?
Three villages that grew into one largish parish :).
Interesting post
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very well..
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Very nice
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I’ll have to go there one day – it’s one of many places in my home country that have so far escaped my attention!
Glad to encourage you in that direction :).
Very interesting!
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