Utterby

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Utterby
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St Andrew's Church, Utterby
Utterby is located in Lincolnshire
Utterby
Utterby
 Utterby shown within Lincolnshire
Population 293 (2011)[1]
OS grid reference TF309933
   – London 140 mi (230 km)  S
District East Lindsey
Shire county Lincolnshire
Region East Midlands
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town LOUTH
Postcode district LN11
Dialling code 01472
Police Lincolnshire
Fire Lincolnshire
Ambulance East Midlands
EU Parliament East Midlands
UK Parliament Louth and Horncastle
List of places
UK
England
Lincolnshire

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Utterby is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated on the A16 road, 10 miles (16 km) south from Grimsby and 4 miles (6 km) north from Louth.

Utterby railway station[2] (or Utterby Halt), on the line between Grimsby and Louth, closed in 1961. Near to the Village is the site of a former Gilbertine priory.[3] It is believed that the monks of this priory built the village's Packhorse bridge in the 14th century.[4]

The Prime Meridian passes to the east of Utterby.

Toponymy

The name Utterby comes from the Scandinavian 'by' which means village, and is a common place name suffix in the area. The 'utter' comes from the Old English 'uttera', cognate with the modern English word 'outer', or remote, and not the modern Swedish 'utter' which means otter. Therefore to the Vikings this was 'the remote village'.[5] This is a common construction also seen in Itterby, one of the parishes which formed Cleethorpes, and also Ytterby in Sweden, which is relatively frequent in Scandinavia and from which derive the names of the Chemical elements Yttrium, Ytterbium, Terbium and Erbium.[citation needed]

References

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  2. Conolly 2004, p. 22, section G2.
  3. Catholic Herald 26 March 2004 "Medieval English order enjoys revival in Brazil"
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