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Huttoft

Huttoft is a village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, about 4 miles (6 km) east of the market town of Alford, on the A52 road between Ingoldmells and Sutton-on-Sea. John Betjeman, later England's Poet Laureate, visited Huttoft in the 1940s and devoted a poem to its parish church.[2]

Huttoft
St Margaret's Church, Huttoft
Huttoft is located in Lincolnshire
Huttoft
Huttoft
Location within Lincolnshire
Population585 (2011)[1]
OS grid referenceTF513764
• London120 mi (190 km) S
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townAlford
Postcode districtLN13
PoliceLincolnshire
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53°15′48″N 0°16′03″E / 53.263434°N 0.267533°E / 53.263434; 0.267533

Etymology and early history

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Huttoft is listed three times in the 1086 Domesday Book as Hotoft,[3] in the manors of both Huttoft and Greetham in the Calcewath Hundred of the South Riding of Lindsey. The combined listings record over 19 households, and 20 villagers, 23 smallholders, 69 freemen, 20 ploughlands, and meadows of 860 acres (3.5 km2). Before the Norman Conquest Earl Harold was lord of Greetham; this in 1086 transferred to Earl Hugh of Chester who also became tenant-in-chief to King William I. The 1086 tenant-in-chief of Huttoft was Alfred of Lincoln.[4]

Huttoft is an Anglo-Norse place-name derived from Old English hoh "decline", "slope" and Old Norse topt "site of a house". However, the Dictionary of British Place Names defines Huttoft as a "homestead on a spur of land."[5] De Beaurepaire states that it is the same name as the Hottot; Hotot (f. e. Hotot-en-Auge) ; Hautot (former Hotot. f. e. Hautot-sur-Seine) in Normandy.[6]

Landmarks

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St Margaret's Church is built of stone in the decorated style,[7] and is a Grade I listed building. Built of greenstone, limestone, and with some brick patching, Restorations took place in 1869, 1882, and 1910. The west tower is 13th-century, although it was extended in the 14th century. The font is 15th-century, although the cover is 19th-century.[8] The churchyard cross, is a Grade II listed structure,[9] which was restored in 1896 with the addition of a crucifix.[10]

The Poet Laureate John Betjeman (1906–1984) was fond of Lincolnshire: Wolds, Marsh and the Georgian town of Louth. He refers to St Margaret's, Huttoft, in the second of his Lincolnshire poems, A Lincolnshire Church.[11] This is one of his longer poems and also mentions the vicar of 1943–1959, Theophilus Caleb, whom he met.

The Wesleyan Methodist chapel in Sutton Road, Huttoft, joined the Alford, Skegness and Wainfleet Methodist Circuit in 1997.[12]

The Primitive Methodists also had a chapel, in Church Lane, which was on the Alford Methodist circuit until 1963 and has since been demolished, but its graveyard remains.[13]

Huttoft windmill, in the centre of the village, is a Grade II listed building.[14] It lost its sails in 1945 in a storm after a century of milling.[15]

Huttoft School was built as a National School in 1840 and enlarged in 1874. It was known as Huttoft CE School by 1914, and became Huttoft County Primary in 1947. It became a grant-maintained school and has been known as Huttoft Primary (GM) School since 1999.[16]

 
Huttoft Car Terrace[17]

Huttoft Bank Pit, some 2.5 miles (4.0 km) east of the village, is a nature reserve protected by the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust. It provided clay for repairs to the sea bank after the North Sea flood of 1953. It includes a large open water area and extensive reed beds.[18] Huttoft Bank leads to Huttoft Beach, also known as Moggs Eye. The coastal path links to Anderby and Chapel Point in the south, and Sandilands to the north.[19][20]

Huttoft is the location of the Radcliffe Donkey Sanctuary.

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    Moggs Eye
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    Primitive Methodist cemetery
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    Huttoft sign

Population

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Population of Huttoft Civil Parish
Year 1801 1811 1821 1831 1841 1851 1881 1891 1901 1911 1921 1931 1951 1961 2001 2011
Population[21] 286 340 401 470 515 586 597 535 469 468 458 461 448 404 546 585

References

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  1. ^ "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  2. ^ History Matters. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
  3. ^ Albert Hugh Smith, English Place-name Elements, 2 volumes, Cambridge, 1972.
  4. ^ "Huttoft". Domesday Map. Ann Powell-Smith/University of Hull. Retrieved 23 August 2011.
  5. ^ Mills, Anthony David (2003); A Dictionary of British Place Names, Oxford University Press, revised edition (2011), p.252. ISBN 019960908X
  6. ^ François de Beaurepaire, Les Noms des communes et anciennes paroisses de la Seine-Maritime, éditions Picard 1979. p. 92. ISBN 2708400401
  7. ^ "Kelly's Directory" (PDF). Kelly's Directories Ltd. 1919. p. 808. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
  8. ^ Historic England. "St Margarets Church (1360009)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 23 August 2011.
  9. ^ "Cross in Churchyard, South Side, Huttoft". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
  10. ^ Historic England. "Churchyard Cross, St Margarets (1147238)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 23 August 2011.
  11. ^ Collected Poems (1958), p. 141 Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  12. ^ "Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Huttoft". Lincs to the Past. Lincolnshire Archives. Retrieved 23 August 2011.
  13. ^ "Huttoft Primitive Methodist Chapel". Lincs to the Past. Lincolnshire Archives. Retrieved 23 August 2011.
  14. ^ "Huttoft Mill, Huttoft". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
  15. ^ "Time Travel Britain". Retrieved 24 April 2011.
  16. ^ "Huttoft School". Lincs to the Past. Lincolnshire Archives. Retrieved 23 August 2011.
  17. ^ Changes to coastal car parks after discrimination complaints Nottinghamshire Live 12 September 2022. Retrieved 3 November 2023
  18. ^ "Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust". Archived from the original on 25 July 2011. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
  19. ^ "Huttoft Beach". Retrieved 24 April 2011.
  20. ^ Huttoft Boat Shed and Café now open Lincolnshire County Council, 11 April 2022. Retrieved 3 November 2023
  21. ^ "Vision of Britain". Retrieved 23 August 2011.
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