 III, chapter 7, by which the legal partition was effected.In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales said Thorpe was 1,495 acres () in which lived 552 people in 110 houses.Its real property (housing and businesses) were valued at £3,901 for taxation purposes and Thorpe Lee, Thorpe House, Thorpe Place, and Eastly End were the main houses.