Tiptoe, Hampshire

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50°46′45″N1°38′17″W / 50.779078°N 1.638187°W / 50.779078; -1.638187

Tiptoe is a small Hamlet 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+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) west of the village of Sway, and about 2 miles (3.2 km) northeast of the town of New Milton.

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The Hamlet

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 Hamlet 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 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. [12] 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. [13]

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Tiptoe Primary School

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 initially 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]

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References

  1. ↑ New Forest National Park map
  2. ↑ Map of the Civil Parish of Hordle
  3. ↑ Page detailing a map of the Civil Parish of Sway
  4. 1 2 NEW FOREST AREA PPG17 Assessment: Open Space, Sport and Recreation. Parish Profile: HORDLE
  5. ↑ Tiptoe Primary School
  6. ↑ All Saints, Hordle with St. Andrew, Tiptoe
  7. ↑ Final move to save post offices fails Southern Daily Echo, 27 March 2008
  8. ↑ Post office protesters' long march Southern Daily Echo, 20 November 2007
  9. ↑ Peter Long, (2004), The Hidden Places of England, page 252
  10. ↑ Old Hampshire Gazetteer
  11. ↑ A. T. Lloyd, J. E. S. Brooks, (1996), The History of New Milton and its Surrounding Area, Centenary Edition, page 23
  12. ↑ A. T. Lloyd, J. E. S. Brooks, (1996), The History of New Milton and its Surrounding Area, Centenary Edition, page 40
  13. ↑ Frederic Boase (editor), (1892), Modern English biography: containing many thousand concise memoirs of Persons who have Died since the Years 1850, Volume 1
  14. ↑ A. T. Lloyd, J. E. S. Brooks, (1996), The History of New Milton and its Surrounding Area, Centenary Edition, pages 38 and 78
  15. 1 2 3 Hampshire Treasures Volume 5 (New Forest), page 159
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