More information : SE 876020. Settlement of Scotterthorpe, earlier Scawthorpe, is
documented from DB onwards but not after the late 11th century
distinguished from Scotter in taxation and population returns.
Despite its size and junior status there is no indication of a threat
of desertion. Its plan,(a) based upon an E-W street that curves S at right angles at its E end, and to the W opened onto Scotter Common,
is notable for the regularity of the long tofts of its S row and (to
a lesser extent) of a block of short tofts at the E end of its N row,
as if they were additions pulling together and regularizing formerly
disparate elements into a two-row street plan. (1-2)
There was no trace, on the available air photographs, of Medieval settlement, around the present village of Scotterthorpe, referred to by the previous authority. (3) |