Tiptoe is a small village in the New Forest National Park in Hampshire, England.New Forest National Park map It lies mostly within the civil parish of HordleMap of the Civil Parish of Hordle and partly within the civil parish of Sway.Page detailing a map of the Civil Parish of Sway It is west of Sway village, and about northeast of the town of New Milton.
Tiptoe had just under 100 residents in 2007. It has two churches, and a primary school with an associated pre-school.NEW FOREST AREA PPG17 Assessment: Open Space, Sport and Recreation. Parish Profile: HORDLETiptoe Primary School The parish church is dedicated to Saint Andrew and is the daughter church of All Saints’ at Hordle.All Saints, Hordle with St. Andrew, Tiptoe The Tiptoe Stores and Post Office closed in 2008,Final move to save post offices fails Southern Daily Echo, 27 March 2008 despite a campaign to save it.Post office protesters' long march Southern Daily Echo, 20 November 2007 Just outside the village lies the Plough Inn, the premises of which date from about 1630.Peter Long, (2004), The Hidden Places of England, page 252
History The name of the village derives from a surname of French origin recorded in the 13th century as "Typetot".Old Hampshire Gazetteer A member of the "Tibetot" family is known to have held land in the Barton area in the early 14th century.A. T. Lloyd, J. E. S. Brooks, (1996), The History of New Milton and its Surrounding Area, Centenary Edition, page 23
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.A. T. Lloyd, J. E. S. Brooks, (1996), The History of New Milton and its Surrounding Area, Centenary Edition, page 40 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.Frederic Boase (editor), (1892), Modern English biography: containing many thousand concise memoirs of Persons who have Died since the Years 1850, Volume 1
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.A. T. Lloyd, J. E. S. Brooks, (1996), The History of New Milton and its Surrounding Area, Centenary Edition, pages 38 and 78
St Andrew's Hall on Sway Road, Tiptoe, is a corrugated iron building dating from around 1870.Hampshire Treasures Volume 5 (New Forest), page 159 It was initially a chapel at Netley Hospital. It was brought to Tiptoe as a chapel of ease for Hordle Parish Church and is now used as a hall.
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