The settlement of Scotterthorpe, earlier named Scawthorpe, is documented from Domesday Book onwards, but is not distinguished from Scotter in taxation and population returns after the late 11th century. Despite its size and junior status there is no indication of a threat or desertion. Its plan, based on an east to west street that curves south at right angles at its east end, to the west opened onto Scotter Common, is notable for the regularity of the long tofts of its south row and (to a lesser extent) of a block of short tofts at the east end of its north row, as if they were additions pulling together and regularising formerly disparate elements into a two-row street plan. {1}{2}