HUTTOFT, a village and a parish in Spilsby district, Lincoln. The village stands on an eminence amid surrounding marshes, 2½ miles from the sea, and 4¼ E of Alford r. station; commands extensive views over land and sea; and has a post office under Alford. Its name was anciently spelled Holtoft, Hotoft, Hottefte, and Huttorp; and has sometimes been written Hightoft.—The parish comprises 3, 310 acres. Real property, £7, 059. Pop. in 1851, 586; in 1861, 710. Houses, 137. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £100. * Patron, the Bishop of Lincoln. The church is decorated English, with an early English tower; contains a fine old font and several tablets: and was restored in 1869. There are chapels for Independents and Wesleyans, a national school, and charities £18.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))