Hutton-le-Hole

The village appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Hoton.{{Cite web |last1=Powell-Smith |first1=Anna |title=Hutton [le Hole] {{!}} Domesday Book |url=http://opendomesday.org/place/SE7090/hutton-le-hole/ |website=opendomesday.org |accessdate=16 November 2018}} Since then it has been known as Hege-Hoton, Hoton under Heg and Hewton. The name Hutton-le-Hole means place of the burial ground near the hollow,{{Cite book |last1=Chrystal |first1=Paul |title=The Place Names of Yorkshire; Cities, Towns, Villages, Rivers and Dales, some Pubs too, in Praise of Yorkshire Ales |date=2017 |publisher=Stenlake |location=Catrine |isbn=9781840337532 |page=47 |edition=1}} but the full name appears only in the 19th century.{{Cite book |last1=Dillon |first1=Paddy |title=The Cleveland Way and the Yorkshire Wolds Way |date=2016 |publisher=Cicerone |location=Milnthorpe |isbn=978-1-85284-823-1 |page=105 |edition=2}}

Near the end of the 13th century, the village was granted to St Mary's Abbey, York.{{Cite web |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/yorks/north/vol1/pp524-529 |title=Parishes: Lastingham, Pages 524-529, A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 1. |accessdate=14 March 2021}}

In the 1600s the village was mainly inhabited by Quakers working as weavers or in agriculture.{{Cite web |url=https://www.whitbyholidaypark.com/2014/04/hutton-le-hole.html |title=HUTTON LE HOLE |accessdate=14 March 2021}} The Quaker evangelist John Richardson died there in 1753 at the age of 87.{{Cite ODNB |last1=Gerona |first1=Carla |title=Richardson, John (1667–1753) |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-23561 |accessdate=16 November 2018 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/23561 |date=23 September 2004}} About four miles away in Kirbymoorside stands an old building that began as a Quaker Meeting House in 1690; it was much modified in 1790 and extended about 1810.{{Cite web |url=https://heritage.quaker.org.uk/files/Kirkbymoorside%20LM.pdf |title=Friends Meeting House, Kirkbymoorside |accessdate=14 March 2021}} It remains a Grade II listed building.{{Cite web |url=https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101149242-friends-meeting-house-at-rear-of-79-kirkbymoorside |title=FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE AT REAR OF 79 (West End) |accessdate=14 March 2021}} John Richardson was buried at the Meeting's burial site.{{Cite web |url=http://www.englishtowns.net/kirkbymoorside/ |title=Kirkbymoorside |accessdate=14 March 2021 |archive-date=27 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161027051036/http://www.englishtowns.net/kirkbymoorside/ |url-status=dead }} There was a Meeting House in Hutton-le-Hole as well, built in 1698 but turned into a residence in 1859. Interments there continued until 1868.{{Cite web |url=https://ryedalechristiancouncil.org.uk/HWeb/ryedalequakerpropertiess.pdf |title=QUAKER PROPERTIES AROUND RYEDALE |accessdate=14 March 2021}}

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By 1831, Hutton-le-Hole was part of the Anglican Lastingham parish. The "Township of Hutton-le-Hole" was receiving education funding from a charity owned by John Stockton in 1914.{{Cite web |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/yorks/north/vol1/pp524-529 |title=Parishes: Lastingham, Pages 524-529, A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 1 |accessdate=14 March 2021}} The first schoolhouse was built in 1845 and replaced in 1875 by a Grade II listed building, but this is now a holiday let.{{Cite web |url=https://www.whitbyholidaypark.com/2014/04/hutton-le-hole.html |title=HUTTON LE HOLE |accessdate=14 March 2021}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.gonorthyorkshire.co.uk/hutton-le-hole-holiday-cottages/ |title=Hutton le Hole Holiday Cottages North York Moors, North Yorkshire, Go Yorkshire |date=30 November 2020 |accessdate=14 March 2021}}

In 1901, the old building of the Zion Chapel still stood, but was no longer in use. The village bought it and pulled it down in 1934 when a new church, St Chad's, was built; this still stands and forms part of the Benefice of Lastingham. In earlier years, services had been held in the schoolhouse.{{Cite web |url=https://huttonlehole.ryedaleconnect.org.uk/st-chads/ |title=Hutton-le-Hole, St Chad's Church |date=18 November 2010 |accessdate=14 March 2021}}

Altogether the village has 29 properties historically listed as Grade II, many of them from the 18th century.{{Cite web |url=https://www.thewhitbyguide.co.uk/11-unique-market-towns-and-villages-in-the-north-york-moors/ |title=11 Unique Market Towns And Villages In The North York Moors |accessdate=14 March 2021}} One is a K6 telephone kiosk designed in 1935, another a sundial installed in 1833.{{Cite web |url=https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/england/hutton-le-hole-ryedale-north-yorkshire#.YE41YJ1KhPY |title=Listed Buildings in Hutton-le-Hole, Ryedale, North Yorkshire |accessdate=14 March 2021}}

The world championships in the board game Nine men's morris took place annually at the Ryedale Folk Museum in Hutton-le-Hole until 1997.{{Cite web |url=http://www.merrill.org/genealogy/games/boardgame.html |title=Merrills history |date=3 December 2009 |accessdate=7 March 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304204733/http://merrill.org/genealogy/games/boardgame.html |archivedate=4 March 2016}}

From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Ryedale, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.

In the Victorian period, gentry saw the village as "ill-planned and untidy" and "overcrowded [with] homes of weavers, smallholders and labourers.... Manure was piled everywhere and the beck was the common sewer."{{Cite web |url=https://www.northyorkmoors.org.uk/visiting/enjoy-outdoors/walking/our-walks/walking-routes/hutton-le-hole-and-lastingham |title=Hutton le Hole and Lastingham |work=North York Moors National Park |accessdate=14 March 2021}}

Hutton-le-Hole now features among the "20 most beautiful villages in the UK and Ireland" according to Condé Nast Traveler and is much visited.{{Cite web |url=https://www.cntraveller.com/gallery/beautiful-villages-uk |title=THE 20 MOST BEAUTIFUL VILLAGES IN THE UK AND IRELAND, 20 October 2020 |date=20 October 2020 |accessdate=14 March 2021}} It has a large pay-and-display car park at the north end.{{Cite web |url=https://www.northyorkmoors.org.uk/coronavirus-covid-19/car-parks-and-toilets |title=Car Parks and Toilets|work=North York Moors National Park |accessdate=14 March 2021}} The National Park Authority recommends visits to the Hutton le Hole Craft Workshops and Ryedale Folk Museum, followed by a two-mile walk to Lastingham and its ancient church, St Mary's.{{Cite web |url=https://www.northyorkmoors.org.uk/nl/visiting/enjoy-outdoors/walking/our-walks/walking-routes/hutton-le-hole-and-lastingham |title=Hutton le Hole and Lastingham |work=North York Moors National Park |accessdate=14 March 2021}}

The museum covers 13 rescued and reconstructed historic buildings, including an Iron Age round house, period shops, thatched cottages, an Elizabethan manor house, barns and workshops, to display the lives of ordinary people up to the present day. There is a cafe, a shop, a gift shop, and in season craft workshops.{{Cite web |title=Ryedale on the Net |url=http://www.ryedale.co.uk/ryedale/villages/huttonlehole/huttonlehole.html |accessdate=17 February 2016}} The folk museum also has the photographic studio of William Hayes, believed to be the oldest daylight photographic studio in England, set up in the early 20th century.{{Cite news |title=Snapshot of the past in historic photo studio |url=https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/snapshot-of-the-past-in-historic-photo-studio-1-6966344 |accessdate=16 November 2018 |work=The Yorkshire Post |date=22 September 2014}} The studio was built in 1902 in Monkgate, York, and donated to the museum in 1991.{{Cite web |url=https://www.ryedalefolkmuseum.co.uk/taking-a-photograph-the-edwardian-way/ |title=TAKING A PHOTOGRAPH THE EDWARDIAN WAY |accessdate=14 March 2021}}

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Hutton-le-Hole lies in Ryedale on the southern edge of the North York Moors, just {{convert|4|km|order=flip}} north of Kirkbymoorside and the A170 road.{{Cite map |title=North York Moors – Western area |map=OL26 |year=2016 |scale=1:25,000 |series=Explorer |publisher=Ordnance Survey |isbn=978-0319242650}} The hamlet of Lastingham is {{convert|1.5|mi}} north-east of the village,{{Cite web |title=Genuki: In 1822, the following places were in the Parish of Lastingham:, Yorkshire (North Riding) |url=https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/NRY/Lastingham/more |website=www.genuki.org.uk |accessdate=16 November 2018}} with the Tabular Hills Walk passing through both places.{{Cite book |last1=Dillon |first1=Paddy |title=The Cleveland Way and the Yorkshire Wolds Way |date=2016 |publisher=Cicerone |location=Milnthorpe |isbn=978-1-85284-823-1 |page=5 |edition=2}}

The stream Hutton Beck wends its way through the middle of the village, criss-crossed by footpaths and wooden bridges.{{Cite book |last1=Andrews |first1=Robert |last2=Brown |first2=Jules |last3=Lee |first3=Phil |last4=Humphreys |first4=Rob |title=The rough guide to England |date=2011 |publisher=Rough Guides |location=London |isbn=978-1-84836-601-5 |page=[https://archive.org/details/roughguidetoengl0000unse/page/753 753] |edition=9 |url=https://archive.org/details/roughguidetoengl0000unse/page/753}} One of the bridges was replaced in 2002 by the North York Moors National Park Authority when pedestrian traffic across increased dramatically, after the village green was designated as a right of way.{{Cite news |title=Popular bridge replaced |work=The Northern Echo |date=5 August 2002 |id={{ProQuest|329042225}}}} The stream splits the village green, whose grass is kept short by sheep.{{Cite web |title=Hutton le Hole and Lastingham: North York Moors National Park |url=https://www.northyorkmoors.org.uk/visiting/see-and-do/attractions/hutton-le-hole |website=northyorkmoors.org.uk |accessdate=16 November 2018}} Hutton Beck flows into the River Rye via Catter Beck and the River Seven.{{Cite web |title=Catter Beck/Hutton Beck from source to River Seven |url=https://environment.data.gov.uk/catchment-planning/WaterBody/GB104027068550 |website=environment.data.gov.uk |accessdate=16 November 2018}}

• Listed buildings in Hutton-le-Hole

Hutton-le-Hole JF.jpg|Image along Fairy Call beck

Hutton le hole C9676.jpg|Dwellings on the village green and beck

Hutton le hole 124113.jpg|On the village green and beck

Pinfold in Hutton-le-Hole.jpg|Village pinfold

HuttonLeHole1.jpg|Shops in Hutton-le-Hole

Hutton le hole JF2.jpg|Snow in 2021

Outside of Ryedale museum.jpg|Outside Ryedale Folk Museum

HLH snow.JPG|Hutton-le-Hole and Hutton Beck

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