Thorp
Thorp is a Middle English word for a hamlet or small village. Etymology. The name can either come from Old Norse "þorp" (also "thorp"), or from Old English (Anglo-Saxon) "þrop". There are many place names in England with the suffix "-thorp" or "-thorpe". Those of Old Norse origin are to be found in Northumberland, County Durham, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, and Suffolk. Those of Anglo-Saxon origin are to be found in southern England from Worcestershire to Surrey. Care must be taken to distinguish the two forms. Variations of the Anglo-Saxon suffix are "-throp", "-thrope", "-trop" and  -trip (e.g. Adlestrop and Southrope). Old English (Anglo-Saxon) "þrop" is cognate with Low-Saxon "trup"/"trop"/"drup"/"drop" as in Handrup or Waltrop, Frisian "terp", German "torp" or "dorf" as in Düsseldorf, the 'Village of the river Düssel', and Dutch "dorp". It also appears in Lorraine place-names as "-troff" such as Grosbliederstroff (France) in front of Kleinblittersdorf (Germany). It sometimes occurs in Normandy as Torp(s) / Tourp(s) / "-tourp" or even "-tour", for instance : le Torp-Mesnil, le Tourp, Clitourps or Saussetour (Manche, "Sauxetorp" end 12th century, like Saustrup, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, former "Saxtorppe" and "Saxtorf", former "Saxtorpe" 1538 idem, and Saxthorpe in  Norfolk, England), all from Old Norse or Old English. Use. Thorps often appear in roleplaying games as the smallest form of permanent habitation. Thorps in Dungeons and Dragons are defined as having between 20-80 people while those in Pathfinder have 20 or fewer. Hamlets, in these games, are the next most populous having 81-400 or 21-60 people in the respective games.