Tiptoe, Hampshire

Tiptoe
Tiptoe
Tiptoe Location within Hampshire
OS grid reference	SZ256977
District	New Forest
Shire county	Hampshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	LYMINGTON
Postcode district	SO41 6
Police	Hampshire and Isle of Wight
Fire	Hampshire and Isle of Wight
Ambulance	South Central
UK Parliament	New Forest West
List of places UK England Hampshire 50°46′44″N1°38′17″W / 50.779°N 1.638°W / 50.779; -1.638

Tiptoe is a small village in the New Forest National Park in Hampshire, England. ^[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 Sway village, and about 2 miles (3.2 km) northeast of the town of New Milton.

Tiptoe had just under 100 residents in 2007. ^[4] It has two churches, and a primary school with an associated pre-school. ^{[5] [6]} The parish church is dedicated to Saint Andrew and is the daughter church of All Saints’ at Hordle. ^[7] The Tiptoe Stores and Post Office closed in 2008, ^[8] despite a campaign to save it. ^[9] Just outside the village lies the Plough Inn, the premises of which date from about 1630. ^[10]

History

The name of the village derives from a surname of French origin recorded in the 13th century as "Typetot". ^[11] A member of the "Tibetot" family is known to have held land in the Barton area in the early 14th century. ^[12]

Tiptoe 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, Hordle. ^[13] Girling believed the Second Coming of Christ would soon occur and that she would live forever. She died at the Tiptoe farm on 18 September 1886. ^[14]

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. ^[15]

St Andrew's Hall on Sway Road, Tiptoe, is a corrugated iron building dating from around 1870. ^[16] It was initially a chapel at Netley Hospital. ^[16] It was brought to Tiptoe as a chapel of ease for Hordle Parish Church and is now used as a hall. ^[16]

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. "NEW FOREST AREA PPG17 Assessment: Open Space, Sport and Recreation. Parish Profile: HORDLE" (PDF). New Forest District Council. 4 June 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 July 2011 – via Internet Archive.
5. NEW FOREST AREA PPG17 Assessment: Open Space, Sport and Recreation. Parish Profile: HORDLE
6. Tiptoe Primary School
7. All Saints, Hordle with St. Andrew, Tiptoe
8. Final move to save post offices fails Southern Daily Echo, 27 March 2008
9. Post office protesters' long march Southern Daily Echo, 20 November 2007
10. Peter Long, (2004), The Hidden Places of England, page 252
11. Old Hampshire Gazetteer
12. A. T. Lloyd, J. E. S. Brooks, (1996), The History of New Milton and its Surrounding Area, Centenary Edition, page 23
13. A. T. Lloyd, J. E. S. Brooks, (1996), The History of New Milton and its Surrounding Area, Centenary Edition, page 40
14. Frederic Boase (editor), (1892), Modern English biography: containing many thousand concise memoirs of Persons who have Died since the Years 1850, Volume 1
15. A. T. Lloyd, J. E. S. Brooks, (1996), The History of New Milton and its Surrounding Area, Centenary Edition, pages 38 and 78
16. Hampshire Treasures Volume 5 (New Forest), page 159