Scotterthorpe

{{Short description|Hamlet in the civil parish of Scotter and the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England}}

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| constituency_westminster= Gainsborough

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Scotterthorpe is a hamlet in the civil parish of Scotter and the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is {{convert|2.5|mi|km|1}} south from the M180 motorway, {{convert|9|mi|km|0}} north-east from Gainsborough, {{convert|5|mi|km|0}} south from Scunthorpe, and {{convert|1|mi|km|1}} north-east from the village of Scotter.

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In the 1086 Domesday Book Scotterthorpe is written as "Scaltorp", in the West Riding of Lindsey and the Hundred of Corringham. It comprised 12 households, 4 villagers and 8 freemen, with 2 ploughlands and a meadow of {{convert|30|acre|km2|0}}. In 1066 Alnoth and Eskil were Lords of the Manor, which, by 1086, had been transferred to the Abbey of St Peter, Peterborough, which was also Tenant-in-chief.[http://www.domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SE8701/scotterthorpe/ "Scotterthorpe"], Domesdaymap.co.uk. Retrieved 18 June 2012[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/details-result.asp?Edoc_Id=7585685&queryType=1&resultcount=1 "Documents Online: Scotterthorpe, Lincolnshire"], Great Domesday Book, Folios: 345v, 364r; The National Archives. Retrieved 18 June 2012 Mills states that the name of village of "Scalthorpe" derives from the Old Scandinavian: "an outlying farmstead or hamlet of a man called Skalli".Mills, Anthony David (2003); A Dictionary of British Place Names, Oxford University Press, revised edition (2011), p.409. {{ISBN|019960908X}}

English Heritage calls an earlier deserted medieval village of Scotterthorpe, "Scawthorpe", being just south-west of the present settlement, with evidence of tofts (homesteads with land), and indicating that there is no mention of its existence later than 1100 CE.{{cite PastScape|mnumber=891663|mname= Scotterthorpe|accessdate=18 June 2012}}

Scotterthorpe is recorded in the 1872 White's Directory as a hamlet of Scotter, others being Susworth and Cotehouses. Revenue and taxes came from the "Town and Constable's Land", created after the early 19th- century enclosure of Scotter, with above {{convert|9|acre|km2|sigfig=1}} given to Scotterthorpe to support the hamlet as a constablewick [historically an area of land under the charge and jurisdiction of an appointed constable who would oversee parish civil and criminal law, and church law]. There were nine farmers in the hamlet.White, William (1872), Whites Directory of Lincolnshire, pp.323-324

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