What is the fine-grained topic of the following text: According to 'The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names' (4th Edition 1960, ISBN 0-19-869103-3), in Old Danish 'thorp' means "a smaller village, due to colonization from a larger one" but goes on to indicate that it was used often not so much for villages as "outlying, dependent farms belonging to a village". Only return the topic.
Meaning of 'thorp' in Old Danish according to 'The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names'