PRN 64255 Ewerby Thorpe is first mentioned in the Domesday Book. Land there belonged to the King, Gilbert de Gand, Colsuain and Martin. It was a berewic of Ewerby (PRN 64253), and there were disputes between landowners in the two villages over the ownership of some of the land. Ewerby Thorpe had a minimum population of 9 sokemen, 9 bordars and 10 villeins (although this may include some people resident in Ewerby as the two are combined in one entry). {1} Ewerby Thorpe was originally known as Oustorp (or variations of this), a name with Old Danish and Old Norse elements meaning 'the secondary settlement to the east (of Ewerby)'. The current form of the name is not noted prior to 1631. {2} Ewerby Thorpe is assessed with Ewerby in the Lay Subsidy of 1334. Together, these settlements were worth £6 3s 11d, about average for their wapentake (Aswardhurn). {3} Ewerby Thorpe is not mentioned in later documents e.g. the Diocesan Returns of 1563 and later and the 19th cenutry census returns. Presumably it has been assimilated into Ewerby by this point in the documentary evidence although it remains a separate settlement focus geographically to this day. {4}{5}{6} The landowners at Ewerby Thorpe from the medieval period to the 19th century are discussed briefly by Trollope. {7} Ewerby Thorpe (as Ousethorpe) is listed as a shrunken medieval village in Healey & Roffe's gazetteer. {8}