Huttoft
Sign in to saveHuttoft is a village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, about 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.
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Place details
- Locality
- East Lindsey
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 585
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Key facts
- UK place.static_image_name
- Parish Church of St. Margaret, Huttoft - geograph.org.uk - 173284.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- St Margaret's Church, Huttoft
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Huttoft
- UK place.population
- 585
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011)
- UK place.shire_district
- East Lindsey
- UK place.shire_county
- Lincolnshire
- UK place.region
- East Midlands
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Louth and Horncastle
- UK place.post_town
- Alford
- UK place.postcode_district
- LN13
- UK place.postcode_area
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- East Lindsey
- Population
- +585
- Shares border with
- Hannah cum Hagnaby
- Image
- Parish Church of St. Margaret, Huttoft - geograph.org.uk - 173284.jpg
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- Claudine Longet
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Article
6 sectionsContents
- Etymology and early history
- Landmarks
- Gallery
- Population
- References
- External links
Huttoft is a village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, about 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.
==Etymology and early history== Huttoft is listed three times in the 1086 Domesday Book as Hotoft, 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 . 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.