Milnthorpe Family History

from Milnthorpe in Sandal Magna (WR Yorks) named with Old English myln ‘mill’ + Old Scandinavian þorp ‘secondary settlement outlying farmstead’. As the place-name is of a recurring type there are numerous other possible sources of the surname such as Milnthorpe (Westm) Milnethorpe in Norton (Notts) Millthorpe in Aslackby and Millthorpe in Quarrington (both Lincs) and a lost Milnthorpe in Thurnscoe (WR Yorks).

Of these, at least Millthorpe in Aslackby can be shown to have given rise to a medieval byname. However, the available evidence points firmly to Milnthorpe in Sandal Magna as the origin of the surviving surname and all its variant forms.