Welcome to hoppitt.com.  

This is an 'enclosure' for a variety of web sites managed by Cliff & Rosemary Hoppitt. The Oxford English dictionary defines a "Hoppitt" as An enclosure; a yard' paddock, or the like.  The earliest examples of its use in literature are:

1701 Deed [relating to properties called] 'a barn and Hoppett'.
1864 Gd. Words 581/2 There is a hoppet big enough for the run of a pony.
1867 Crim Chronol York Castle 153 Crowther and Hoyle were interred in the hoppet at the back of the Castle

The genealogical resource for the Hoppitt family.

PhD thesis entitled "A Study of the Development of Parks in Suffolk from the C11th to the C17th" By Rosemary Hoppitt

An illustrated talk on the Sand Hutton Light Railway by Ron Evers

Useful links
 

Deben Radio

 

 

Last updated Dec 2011
by Cliff Hoppitt