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Tiptoe
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″N 1°38′17″W / 50.779°N 1.638°W

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]

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]