Tiptoe, Hampshire
| Tiptoe | |
| Hampshire | |
|---|---|
 Tiptoe | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SZ256978 |
| Location: | 50°46’45"N, 1°38’17"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Lymington |
| Postcode: | SO41 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | New Forest |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
New Forest West |
Tiptoe is a small Hamlet in the New Forest in south-western Hampshire.[1] It is a mile and a half west of the village of Sway, and about two miles north-east of the town of New Milton.
Tiptoe has just under 100 residents. It has two churches, and a primary school with an associated pre-school.[2]
The Tiptoe Stores and Post Office closed in 2008,[3]
Just outside the village lies the Plough Inn, the premises of which date from about 1630.[4]
Church
The parish church is dedicated to St Andrew and is the daughter church of All Saints’ at Hordle.[5]
St Andrew's Hall on Sway Road, Tiptoe, is a corrugated iron building dating from around 1870. It was initially a chapel at Netley Hospital. It was brought to Tiptoe as a chapel of ease for Hordle Parish Church and is now used as a hall.
History
The name of the Hamlet derives from a surname of French origin recorded in the 13th century as "Typetot".[6] A member of the "Tibetot" family is known to have held land in the Barton area in the early 14th century.[7]
The Hamlet 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.[8] Girling 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.[9]
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.[10]
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References
- ↑ New Forest National Park map
- ↑ Tiptoe Primary School
- ↑ Final move to save post offices fails Southern Daily Echo, 27 March 2008
- ↑ Peter Long, (2004), The Hidden Places of England, page 252
- ↑ All Saints, Hordle with St. Andrew, Tiptoe
- ↑ 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
