Utterby
| Utterby | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 St Andrew's Church, Utterby | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF309933 |
| Location: | 53°25’15"N, 0°1’54"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 293 (2011) |
| Post town: | Louth |
| Postcode: | LN11 |
| Dialling code: | 01472 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | East Lindsey |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Louth and Horncastle |
Utterby is a village in Lindsey, the northern part of Lincolnshire. It is on the A16 ten miles south of Grimsby and four miles north of Louth.
Utterby railway station[1] (or Utterby Halt), on the line between Grimsby and Louth, closed in 1961.
Near to the Village is the site of a former Gilbertine priory. It is believed that the monks of this priory built the village's Packhorse bridge in the 14th century.
The Greenwich Meridian passes to the east of Utterby.
Name
The name 'Utterby' comes from the Old Norse Utarr by, which means 'Outer village', or remote village.
The name is found in other forms across the Viking world, for example in Itterby, one of the parishes which formed Cleethorpes, and also in Scandinavia, for example Ytterby in Sweden.
Outside links
 |
("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Utterby) |
References
- ↑ Conolly, W. Philip (2004) [1958]. British Railways Pre-Grouping Atlas and Gazetteer. Hersham, Surrey: Ian Allan Ltd. pp. 22 & section G2. ISBN 978-0-7110-0320-0.