Tiptoe, Hampshire
Coordinates: 50°46′45″N 1°38′17″W / 50.779078°N 1.638187°W
Tiptoe is a small village in the New Forest National Park in Hampshire.[1] It lies mostly within the civil parish of Hordle[2] and partly within the civil parish of Sway.[3] It is 1.5 miles (2 km) west of the village of Sway, and about 2 miles (3 km) northeast of the town of New Milton.
The village
Tiptoe has just under 100 residents.[4] It has two churches, and a primary school with an associated pre-school.[4][5] The parish church is dedicated to Saint Andrew, and is the daughter church of All Saints’ at Hordle.[6] The Tiptoe Stores and Post Office closed in 2008,[7] despite a campaign to save it.[8] Just outside the village lies the Plough Inn, the premises of which date from about 1630.[9]
History
The name of the village derives from a surname of French origin recorded in the 13th century as "Typetot".[10] A member of the "Tibetot" family is known to have held land in the Barton area in the early 14th century.[11]
The village achieved some notoriety in the 1880s when Mary Ann Girling and her religious sect of New Forest Shakers erected tents at a farm at Tiptoe in 1879, having been evicted from their previous residence at Forest Lodge at Hordle.[12] Girling apparently believed that Second Coming of Christ would soon happen, and that she would live forever. Girling died at the Tiptoe farm on 18 September 1886.[13]
A school was built at Tiptoe at the beginning of the 20th century as a replacement for an earlier school in nearby Wootton which burned down in 1914.[14]
St Andrew's Hall on Sway Road, Tiptoe, is a corrugated iron building dating from around 1870.[15] It was originally a chapel at Netley Hospital.[15] It was brought to Tiptoe as a chapel of ease for Hordle Parish Church, and is now used as a hall.[15]
References
- ↑ New Forest National Park map
- ↑ Map of the Civil Parish of Hordle
- ↑ Page detailing a map of the Civil Parish of Sway
- 1 2 NEW FOREST AREA PPG17 Assessment: Open Space, Sport and Recreation. Parish Profile: HORDLE
- ↑ Tiptoe Primary School
- ↑ All Saints, Hordle with St. Andrew, Tiptoe
- ↑ Final move to save post offices fails Southern Daily Echo, 27 March 2008
- ↑ Post office protesters' long march Southern Daily Echo, 20 November 2007
- ↑ Peter Long, (2004), The Hidden Places of England, page 252
- ↑ Old Hampshire Gazetteer
- ↑ A. T. Lloyd, J. E. S. Brooks, (1996), The History of New Milton and its Surrounding Area, Centenary Edition, page 23
- ↑ A. T. Lloyd, J. E. S. Brooks, (1996), The History of New Milton and its Surrounding Area, Centenary Edition, page 40
- ↑ Frederic Boase (editor), (1892), Modern English biography: containing many thousand concise memiors of Persons who have Died since the Years 1850, Volume 1
- ↑ A. T. Lloyd, J. E. S. Brooks, (1996), The History of New Milton and its Surrounding Area, Centenary Edition, pages 38 and 78
- 1 2 3 Hampshire Treasures Volume 5 (New Forest), page 159
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