Districts and Places
Hooton Levitt
Domesday name: HotoneSee also Thurcroft Web
Hooton - ‘farmstead on a spur of land’. Manorial affix from the Livet family, here in the 13th cent.
Sourced from A Dictionary of British Place-Names in Names and Places
This name is written in Domesday Book, Hoton or Hotune, which is evidently compounded of the Norse word Hoot a hill, and tun , a place "tined" or enclosed by a hedge, afterwards expanded into town. The name, therefore, signifies the enclosure or village on the hill. The old form is still retained in Hooton Levitt, near Tickhill; Hooton Pagnell, near Doncaster; Hooton Roberts, near Rotherham; and Hooton in Cheshire.
1822 was in the parish of Maltby , upper division of Strafforth and Tickhill, the seat of William Hoyle, Esq. Situated 5 miles from Tickhill, 7 miles from Rotherham, and 9.25 from Bawtry. The population was 95.
In 1832 a Methodist Chapel was built.
Tradespeople in 1849 when it was recorded that Hooton Levitt had a population of 76 and the area covered about 470 acres:
- George Cattle, farmer
- John Greensmith, farmer
- Roger Haywood, farmer
- Henry Yeardley, farmer
- Lyons Kerrens, Hooton Hall
- Charles Thornhill, corn miller
- Thomas Watkins, joiner
- Peter Winfrow, shoemaker
Tradespeople in 1862 when William Fretwell Hoyle, Esq. and Roger Haywood were principal owners and The Hall was unoccupied:
- George Cattle, farmer
- John Greensmith, huckster
- Roger Haywood, farmer at Manor House
- Charles Thornhill, corn miller at Wood Leys
- Henry Yeardley, farmer
- John Yeardley, collector of poor rates
In 1854 the Taylor's lived at Hooton Levet Hall.
In the 1940s David Flather a director of W. T. Flather Ltd, Sheffield manufacturers of alloy and steel bars, resided at Hooton Levet Hall. He died in April, 1948.
In 1981, a dramatised adaptation of farm worker Fred Kitchen's autobiography, was shown on television. His father worked on Lord Scarborough's Maltby estate, and he found work on a farm at Hooton Levitt.
Google Earth map of Hooton Levitt 
1855 map showing Hooton Levitt»
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