Very few people will know about Thorpe in the Glebe, a lost medieval Nottinghamshire village that's fate is subject to folklore. The name is derived from the Danish word 'torp', which was a subsidiary settlement or farmstead dependent on a larger village.
It was located to the south of Wysall, on the Leicestershire border. By the time the Domesday Book - a survey of England and parts of Wales - was compiled for William the Conqueror in 1086, the village was merely waste. There is no population recorded, so it appears the area was deserted at this time and subsequently resettled.
It was then known as Thorpe Regis or King's Thorpe. A church was built in the village sometime after 1220, before it assumed the name Thorpe in the Glebe in the 14th century.
