Kirkthorpe is a village within the City of Wakefield metropolitan borough of

West Yorkshire West Yorkshire is a Metropolitan counties of England, metropolitan and Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It borders North Yorkshire to the north and east, South Yorkshire and De ...

, England. It lies east of the city centre.

Toponymy

The name "Kirkthorpe" means "outlying or secondary hamlet or farmstead with a church". It is formed of two elements, the first being the

Old Scandinavian Old Scandinavian may refer to: * Proto-Norse, a language spoken from the 3rd to the 7th century * Old Norse Old Norse, also referred to as Old Nordic or Old Scandinavian, was a stage of development of North Germanic languages, North Germa ...

word ''kirkja'' ("church") and the second being either the

Old English Old English ( or , or ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. It developed from the languages brought to Great Britain by Anglo-S ...

''throp'' or the Old Scandinavian ''thorp''. Both of these potential second elements mean "outlying, dependent or secondary farmstead or hamlet".

History

The village's population is less than 100, so details are included in the parish of

Warmfield cum Heath Warmfield cum Heath is a civil parish in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England. The parish lies just over east of Wakefield, and has 57 listed buildings within the parish boundaries. History It had a population of 844 at the 200 ...

. The village has an Anglican church, the Church of St Peter, which was built in the 14th century and rebuilt in 1875. It is now a

grade II* listed In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historic interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, H ...

structure. Kirkthorpe is one of the villages on the proposed route north to Leeds of

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. The intent is to have a viaduct, high, running on a north–south alignment to the east of the village.

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{{authority control Villages in West Yorkshire Geography of the City of Wakefield

Toponymy

History

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