Huttoft
{{Short description|Village in East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2014}}
{{Use British English|date=February 2014}}
{{Infobox UK place
|static_image_name = Parish Church of St. Margaret, Huttoft - geograph.org.uk - 173284.jpg
|static_image_caption = St Margaret's Church, Huttoft
|country = England
|official_name = Huttoft
|map_alt =
|coordinates = {{coord|53.263434|0.267533|display=inline,title}}
|population = 585
|population_ref = (2011){{Cite web |url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11124932&c=LN12+2RX&d=16&e=62&g=6445902&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1439893191071&enc=1 |title=Parish population 2011 |access-date=18 August 2015}}
|shire_district = East Lindsey
|shire_county = Lincolnshire
|region = East Midlands
|constituency_westminster = Louth and Horncastle
|post_town = Alford
|postcode_district = LN13
|postcode_area = LN
|dial_code =
|os_grid_reference = TF513764
|london_distance_mi = 120
|london_direction = S
}}
Huttoft is a village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, about {{Convert|4|mi|km|0}} 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.[https://lovelincolnshirewolds.com/admin/resources/downloads/sir-john-betjeman-final.pdf History Matters. Retrieved 24 November 2020.]
Etymology and early history
Huttoft is listed three times in the 1086 Domesday Book as Hotoft,Albert Hugh Smith, English Place-name Elements, 2 volumes, Cambridge, 1972. in the manors of both Huttoft and Greetham in the Calcewath Hundred of the South Riding of Lindsey. The combined listings record more than 19 households and 20 villagers, 23 smallholders, 69 freemen, 20 ploughlands, and meadows of {{convert|860|acre|km2|1}}. Before the Norman Conquest Earl Harold was lord of Greetham; in 1086 it was 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.{{Cite web |title=Huttoft |url=http://www.domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TF5176/huttoft/ |work=Domesday Map |publisher=Ann Powell-Smith/University of Hull |access-date=23 August 2011}}
Huttoft is an Anglo-Norse place-name derived from Old English hoh ‘decline’, ‘slope’ and Old Norse topt ‘site of a house’. The Dictionary of British Place Names defines Huttoft as a ‘homestead on a spur of land".Mills, Anthony David (2003); A Dictionary of British Place Names, Oxford University Press, revised edition (2011), p.252. {{ISBN|019960908X}} De Beaurepaire states that it is the same name as the Hottot; Hotot (e.g. Hotot-en-Auge) ; Hautot (former Hotot, e.g. Hautot-sur-Seine) in Normandy.François de Beaurepaire, Les Noms des communes et anciennes paroisses de la Seine-Maritime, éditions Picard 1979. p. 92. {{ISBN|2708400401}}
Landmarks
St Margaret's Church is in the decorated style,{{Cite web |title=Kelly's Directory |url=http://www.historicaldirectories.org/exe/wwt.dll/pdf?fn=e:\hdapps\0000b135.pdf |publisher=Kelly's Directories Ltd |access-date=24 April 2011 |page=808 |year=1919}} and is a Grade I listed building of greenstone and limestone 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 and the cover is 19th century.{{NHLE |desc=St Margarets Church |num=1360009 |access-date=23 August 2011}} The churchyard cross is Grade II listed,{{Cite web |title=Cross in Churchyard, South Side, Huttoft |url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-195590-cross-in-churchyard-south-side-huttoft |publisher=British Listed Buildings |access-date=25 April 2011}} restored in 1896 with the addition of a crucifix.{{NHLE |desc=Churchyard Cross, St Margarets |num=1147238 |access-date=23 August 2011}}
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.Collected Poems (1958), p. 141 [http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0614/2006015898.html Retrieved 13 September 2018.] 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 joined the Alford, Skegness and Wainfleet Methodist Circuit in 1997.{{Cite web |title=Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Huttoft |url=http://www.lincstothepast.com/Huttoft--Sutton-Road-Chapel--Wesleyan-Methodist-/750510.record?pt=S |work=Lincs to the Past |publisher=Lincolnshire Archives |access-date=23 August 2011}}
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.{{Cite web |title=Huttoft Primitive Methodist Chapel |url=http://www.lincstothepast.com/Huttoft--Church-Lane-Chapel--Primitive-Methodist-/751400.record?pt=S |work=Lincs to the Past |publisher=Lincolnshire Archives |access-date=23 August 2011}}
Huttoft windmill, in the centre of the village, is Grade II listed.{{Cite web |title=Huttoft Mill, Huttoft |url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-195592-huttoft-mill-huttoft |publisher=British Listed Buildings |access-date=25 April 2011}} It lost its sails in 1945 in a storm after a century of milling.{{Cite web |title=Time Travel Britain |url=http://www.timetravel-britain.com/articles/country/windmills.shtml |access-date=24 April 2011}}
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.{{Cite web |title=Huttoft School |url=http://www.lincstothepast.com/HUTTOFT-PRIMARY-SCHOOL/886574.record?pt=S |work=Lincs to the Past |publisher=Lincolnshire Archives |access-date=23 August 2011}}
File:Huttoft Car Terrace - geograph.org.uk - 360350.jpg 12 September 2022. Retrieved 3 November 2023]]
Huttoft Bank Pit, some {{Convert|2.5|mi|km|1}} 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 area of open water and extensive reed beds.{{Cite web |title=Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust |url=http://lincstrust.org.uk/reserves/nr/reserve.php?mapref=44 |access-date=24 April 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725110715/http://lincstrust.org.uk/reserves/nr/reserve.php?mapref=44 |archive-date=25 July 2011 |df=dmy-all}} 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.{{Cite web |title=Huttoft Beach |url=http://www.coastradar.com/beach-guide/beach.php?beach=257 |access-date=24 April 2011}}[https://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/news/article/1014/huttoft-boat-shed-and-caf-now-open Huttoft Boat Shed and Café now open] Lincolnshire County Council, 11 April 2022. Retrieved 3 November 2023
Huttoft is the location of the Radcliffe Donkey Sanctuary.
Gallery
File:Moggs Eye Car Park - Sea Gate - geograph.org.uk - 1497162.jpg|Moggs Eye
File:Huttoft meth cem.jpg|Primitive Methodist cemetery
File:Huttoft.jpg|Huttoft sign
Population
| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%; width:100%; border:0; text-align:center; line-height:120%;"
! colspan="12" style="text-align:center;font-size:90%;"|Population of Huttoft Civil Parish |
| style="background:#9cc; color:navy; height:17px;"|Year
! style="background:#fff; color:navy;"|1801 ! style="background:#fff; color:navy;"|1811 ! style="background:#fff; color:navy;"|1821 ! style="background:#fff; color:navy;"|1831 ! style="background:#fff; color:navy;"|1841 ! style="background:#fff; color:navy;"|1851 ! style="background:#fff; color:navy;"|1881 ! style="background:#fff; color:navy;"|1891 ! style="background:#fff; color:navy;"|1901 ! style="background:#fff; color:navy;"|1911 ! style="background:#fff; color:navy;"|1921 ! style="background:#fff; color:navy;"|1931 ! style="background:#fff; color:navy;"|1951 ! style="background:#fff; color:navy;"|1961 ! style="background:#fff; color:navy;"|2001 ! style="background:#fff; color:navy;"|2011 |
|---|
| style="text-align:center;"
!style="background:#9cc; color:navy; height:17px;"|Population{{Cite web |title=Vision of Britain |url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit_census_page.jsp?u_id=10426510&c_id=10001043 |access-date=23 August 2011}} |style="background:#fff; color:black;"|286 |style="background:#fff; color:black;"|340 |style="background:#fff; color:black;"|401 |style="background:#fff; color:black;"|470 |style="background:#fff; color:black;"|515 |style="background:#fff; color:black;"|586 |style="background:#fff; color:black;"|597 |style="background:#fff; color:black;"|535 |style="background:#fff; color:black;"|469 |style="background:#fff; color:black;"|468 |style="background:#fff; color:black;"|458 |style="background:#fff; color:black;"|461 |style="background:#fff; color:black;"|448 |style="background:#fff; color:black;"|404 |style="background:#fff; color:black;"|546 |style="background:#fff; color:black:"|585 |
{{Geographic location
|title = Destinations from Swaby
|Northwest = Hannah cum Hagnaby, Maltby le Marsh, Louth
|North = Sutton-on-Sea, Trusthorpe, Mablethorpe
|Northeast = Sandilands (resort)
|West= Bilsby, Alford, Baumber
|Centre= Huttoft
|East= Anderby Creek
|Southwest = Farlesthorpe, Ulceby, Horncastle
|South = Mumby, Cumberworth, Skegness
|Southeast = Chapel St Leonards, Ingoldmells
}}
References
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External links
- {{Commons category-inline|Huttoft}}
- [http://www.radcliffedonkeys.com Website of the Radcliffe Donkey Sanctuary]
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{{Lincolnshire|state=collapsed}}
{{East Lindsey (district) |state=collapsed}}
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Category:Villages in Lincolnshire