Melkinthorpe is a hamlet in the civil parish of Lowther, in the Westmorland and Furness district, in the county of Cumbria, England.

Circa 1870, it had a population of 99 as recorded in the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales.

[1] Places of interest in the village include Larch Cottage nurseries in the hamlet[2] and Red Barn Gallery.

[3] Nearby Abbot Lodge Jersey ice cream farm,[4] is about half a mile away to the southwest, and Wetheriggs County Pottery, now re-located to County Durham, was about a mile away northwards.

[5] The River Leith flows past the southern edge of the village.