 The place-name Sibthorpe seems to contain an Old Norse personal name, "Sibba", + " þorp " (Old Norse), A secondary settlement, a dependent outlying farmstead or hamlet, so probably, "Sibba's outlying farm/settlement".Sibthorpe appears in the Domesday survey of 1086 as "Sibetorp".According to Francis White's "Directory of Nottinghamshire" of 1853, Sibthorpe,
""lies on the Cardike, south-south-west of Newark, and was once a place of considerable importance, having a college founded by Geffrey de Scroop, in the reign of Edward II.