"Tory" in place name? What does it mean?

[chris_49]

it's a long shot, but in 1939 some of my relatives were living in a dwelling named 1 Grimpo Tory in the hamlet of Grimpo in West Felton parish in Shropshire. Three consecutive numbered houses are so named, and I can't make it anything but Tory or Tony (there's a long down loop on the last letter) certainly not Town or an abbreviation of Terrace). I thought it might be a one-off but a relative who's searched the pages found a Haughton Tory in the nearby hamlet of that name in the same parish. Google was not my friend this time. Any ideas?

Chris

[josey]

Have you looked to see what addresses there are in Grimpo in the 1911 census? 1892 map not helpful
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16&lat=52.82891&lon=-2.94875&layers=168&b=1

[chris_49]

I don't have access to the 1911 at the moment. Grimpo is pretty tiny. We visited one of the daughters there in the 60s (she was my father's cousin) and I don't remember the house - may have been a different one - but I remember how small and remote the hamlet seemed.

[Top-of-the-hill]

  I can't help with the Tory name, but at least one person in 1911 used that address - Tom Jones. It looks an interesting place. According to Wiki, it was a squatter settlement on the edge of marshland, and looking at an old map, what may have been the original settlement was semi-circular. You probably already know that, but it interests me!

[Maiden Stone]

If it was a squatter settlement, were the squatters Irish? Tory was a derogatory name applied to Irish outlaws including Catholics and Royalists.
It may simply derive from a personal name of an early settler.
Another question on RC today is about a place-name including Tur. One answer recommends a particular dictionary of place-names.
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=841333.new#ref

[heywood]

There are one or two mentions of Haughton Tory which is about a mile away.

[Gadget]

If I remember, that area of Shropshire has some craggy outcrops (Nesscliffe for eg) - could it be from Tor?

I used to go that way often when my parents were alive but it is a long time ago now.

Gadget

Add -can't see much in the way of close contour lines around Grimpo though

[Rosinish]

Quite a few Grimpo burials listed here, beginning Pg 6...

https://www.oswestrygenealogy.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/St-Chads-MIs-Issue-2.pdf


Gadget, I understand your thinking 

Annie

[markheal]

The tiny Haughton Tory appears to have been gobbled up in the disused Airfield NNE of Haughton village, NE of Grimpo.

Search OS six-inch 1888-1913 names
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16&lat=52.84090&lon=-2.92938&layers=168&b=10