Scotterthorpe

Scotterthorpe
Scotterthorpe
 Scotterthorpe shown within Lincolnshire
OS grid referenceSE876019
   – London 150 mi (240 km)  S
DistrictWest Lindsey
Shire countyLincolnshire
RegionEast Midlands
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town GAINSBOROUGH
Postcode district DN21
Dialling code 01724
Police Lincolnshire
Fire Lincolnshire
Ambulance East Midlands
EU Parliament East Midlands
UK ParliamentGainsborough
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Coordinates: 53°30′26″N 0°40′49″W / 53.507332°N 0.68033°W / 53.507332; -0.68033

Scotterthorpe is a hamlet in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated 2.5 miles (4.0 km) south from the M180 motorway, 9 miles (14 km) north-east from Gainsborough, 5 miles (8 km) south from Scunthorpe, and 1 mile (1.6 km) north-east from the village of Scotter.

Scotterthorpe

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 30 acres (0 km2). 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.[1][2] Mills states that the name of village of "Scalthorpe" derives from the Scandinavian: "an outlying farmstead or hamlet of a man called Skalli".[3]

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.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Scotterthorpe", Domesdaymap.co.uk. Retrieved 18 June 2012
  2. ↑ "Documents Online: Scotterthorpe, Lincolnshire", Great Domesday Book, Folios: 345v, 364r; The National Archives. Retrieved 18 June 2012
  3. ↑ Mills, Anthony David (1991); A Dictionary of British Place names; Oxford University Press, (reprinted 2003 and 2011). ISBN 0198527586. Retrieved 18 June 2012
  4. ↑ Historic England. "Scotterthorpe (891663)". PastScape. Retrieved 18 June 2012.
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