Little Thorpe is a hamlet or village in County Durham, England. It is situated between Easington and Peterlee.
Map of Littlethorpe, Leicester, UK
This small settlement literally derives its name from the fact it is a small village, as "Thorpe" is Anglo-Saxon for village.
It seems to have been a community that was originally centred on a farmstead, and most of the buildings appear to be in the Elizabethan style, but are more probably Victorian in age.
References
Little Thorpe Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA