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The Community Library at Alford has a local history archive that will prove useful in your research.
- The parish was in the Alford sub-district of the Spilsby Registration District.
- Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
Census
YearPiece No. 1841 H.O. 107 / 637 1851 H.O. 107 / 2110 1861 R.G. 9 / 2378 1871 R.G. 10 / 3397 1881 R.G. 11 / 3259 1891 R.G. 12 / 2605
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Margaret.
- The church is built of stone.
- The church tower dates from Saxon times.
- The church was thoroughly restored in 1869 and greatly repaired in 1882. The exterior was restored in 1910.
- The churchyard was enlarged in 1895 and again in July, 1921.
- The church is a Grade I listed building by English Heritage.
- The churchyard cross is a Grade II listed structure, which was restored in 1896 with the addition of a crucifix.
- Alan HEARDMAN has a photograph of St. Margaret's Church on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2009.
- There is a photograph of St. Margaret's Church on the Wendy PARKINSON web site.
- Here is a photo of St. Margaret's Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
- The Anglican parish register entries start in 1562.
- The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Calcewaith and Candleshoe Deanery to make your search easier.
- The Int'l Genealogical Index holds some Huttoft baptisms and marriages. Use batch numbers C029301 - C029302 and M029301 - M029302 for your searches.
- The Wesleyan and Primitive Methodists both had a chapel here. For information and assistance in researching these chapels, see our non-conformist religions page.
- The Primitive Methodists had their own burial churchyard.
- The Wesleyan Methodist chapel in Sutton Road, Huttoft, joined the Alford, Skegness and Wainfleet Methodist Circuit in 1997.
- Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
- The parish was in the Alford sub-district of the Spilsby Registration District.
- Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.
This village and parish is 5 miles east of Alford, 14 miles south-east of Louth and about 13 miles north-east of Spilsby. The parish borders the North Sea, while the village lies over a mile inland. Anderby and Mumby parishes lie to the south and Sutton on Sea to the north. The parish occupies about 3,500 acres of land.
The village sits on a low hill overlooking the surrounding salt marshes. If you are planning a visit:
- The A52 trunk road passes through the heart of the village as it makes it way north to Mablethorpe.
- Visit the Radcliffe Donkey Sanctuary at Bridge House Farm on Alford Road.
- Birdwatching is also popular in the area.
- Huttoft Bank Pit is protected by the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust.
- Camping is available at nearby: Cherry Tree Site, Cherry Tree Cottage, Huttoft Rd, Sutton, Lincolnshire, LN12 2RU.
- See our touring page for more sources.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Huttoft to another place.
- Huttoft was just off the Numby Road station on the Louth and East Coast branch of the Great Northern railway.
- The Coast Guard had a station at Huttoft Bank in the early 1900s.
- The purebred Lincoln longwool sheep was bred here by Mr. John Tuxworth NEEDHAM.
- The Poet Laureate John BETJEMAN refers to St Margaret's, Huttoft, in the second of his Lincolnshire poems.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF512765 (Lat/Lon: 53.264032, 0.266075), Huttoft which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- In 1919 the side chapel of St. Margaret's was screened off and furnished as a memorial to the men of the parish who fell in World War I.
- Its ancient name was High Toft. The name Huttoft is a combination of Old English hoe and Old Scandinavian toft, or "homestead on a spur of land". In the 1086 Domesday book, the village is given as Hotoft. Many other spelling variations exist, including Huttorp and Huttefte.
[A. D. Mills, "A Dictionary of English Place-Names," Oxford University Press, 1991]
- This place was an ancient parish in county Lincoln and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- The parish was in the Marsh division of the ancient Calceworth Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
- For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Alford petty session hearings on alternate Tuesdays.
- An undated charity of the interest on £360, left by W. ROBINSON, was distrubuted between the four most needy poor men of the parish. Their qualification was that they had brought up the most children without parochial relief.
- As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the parish became part of the Spilsby Poor Law Union.
- A National School was founded here in 1840 and in 1872 had 90 students. It was enlarged in 1874 to hold 112 students.
- The present school is The Huttoft County Primary School. It is not known what historical records are available.
- See our Schools page for more information on researching school records.