Huttoft, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Huttoft, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The village stands on an eminence amid surrounding marshes, 2 miles from the sea, and 3 S from Sutton-on-Sea station on the G.N.R.; commands extensive views over land and sea, and has a post office (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Sutton-on-Sea. Its name was anciently spelled Hoi toft, Hotoft, Hottefte, and Huttorp, and has sometimes been written Hightoft. The parish comprises 3450 acres; population, 535. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £149 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Lincoln. The church is Decorated English, with an Early English tower; contains a fine old font and several tablets, and was restored in 1869. There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels. The place is noted for a breed of pure Lincoln long-wool rams. Huttoft Bank is a coastguard station 2½ miles E.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lincolnshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Huttoft St. Margaret | |
Hundred | Calceworth | |
Poor Law union | Spilsby |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Huttoft 1562-1837, Lincolnshire is available to browse online.
Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for Huttoft:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1562-1859 | 1770-1770 | 1562-1911 | 1563-1911 |
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Huttoft from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Huttoft (St. Margaret))
Maps
Online maps of Huttoft are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lincolnshire papers online: