| Country: | England |
| Official Name: | Scotterthorpe |
| Coordinates: | 53.5073°N -0.6803°W |
| Shire District: | West Lindsey |
| Shire County: | Lincolnshire |
| Region: | East Midlands |
| Constituency Westminster: | Gainsborough |
| Post Town: | GAINSBOROUGH |
| Postcode District: | DN21 |
| Postcode Area: | DN |
| Dial Code: | 01724 |
| Os Grid Reference: | SE876019 |
| London Distance Mi: | 150 |
| London Direction: | S |
Scotterthorpe is a hamlet in the civil parish of Scotter and the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is 2.5miles south from the M180 motorway, 9miles north-east from Gainsborough, 5miles south from Scunthorpe, and 1miles north-east from the village of Scotter.In the 1086 Domesday Book Scotterthorpe is written as "Scaltorp", in the West Riding of Lindsey and the Hundred of Corringham. It comprised 12 households, 4 villagers and 8 freemen, with 2 ploughlands and a meadow of 30acres. In 1066 Alnoth and Eskil were Lords of the Manor, which, by 1086, had been transferred to the Abbey of St Peter, Peterborough, which was also Tenant-in-chief.[1] [2] Mills states that the name of village of "Scalthorpe" derives from the Old Scandinavian: "an outlying farmstead or hamlet of a man called Skalli".[3]
English Heritage calls an earlier deserted medieval village of Scotterthorpe, "Scawthorpe", being just south-west of the present settlement, with evidence of tofts (homesteads with land), and indicating that there is no mention of its existence later than 1100 CE.[4]
Scotterthorpe is recorded in the 1872 White's Directory as a hamlet of Scotter, others being Susworth and Cotehouses. Revenue and taxes came from the "Town and Constable's Land", created after the early 19th- century enclosure of Scotter, with above 9acres given to Scotterthorpe to support the hamlet as a constablewick [historically an area of land under the charge and jurisdiction of an appointed constable who would oversee parish civil and criminal law, and church law]. There were nine farmers in the hamlet.[5]