Hutton Village

{{Main|Demographics of Tees Valley}}

In 1851 the Hutton Lowcross township had a population of 49, but by 1861 had risen to 271.

The settlement of Hutton Lowcross is mentioned in the Domesday Book as belonging to Robert of Mortain, and having ten villagers and one priest.{{cite web |title=Hutton [Lowcross] {{!}} Domesday Book |url=https://opendomesday.org/place/NZ6013/hutton-lowcross/ |website=opendomesday.org |access-date=5 July 2022}} The name derives from the Old English Hō-tūn Loucros, meaning a spur of a hill and Loucros was a local name for an area of Guisborough, similar in name to Lowthorpe (another Yorkshire settlement) where the Low part is a personal name of someone from that area (Logi).{{cite book |last1=Ekwall |first1=Eilert |author-link=Eilert Ekwall |title=The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names |date=1960 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=0-19-869103-3 |pages=259, 306 |edition=4}} The name of the settlement has been recorded with various spellings and spaces, with Hutton Low Cross being quite prominent in the late 19th century.{{cite book |last1=Pease |first1=Alfred E. |title=The Cleveland hounds as a trencher-fed pack |date=1887 |publisher=Longmans Green |location=London |page=61|oclc=1042120568}} Modern day Ordnance Survey mapping shows the settlement as Hutton Village (with a capital V), and the area that it is located in as Hutton Lowcross.{{cite web |title=Hutton Village Redcar and Cleveland |url=https://getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/local/hutton-village-redcar-and-cleveland |website=getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk |access-date=6 July 2022}} In the 12th century, the village was known as Hoton,{{sfn|HHCA|2004|p=6}} and later, when mining was a key industry, the village was also occasionally called Codhill, the same name as the ironstone mine in the area.{{cite web |title=Genuki: GUISBOROUGH: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1890., Yorkshire (North Riding) |url=https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/NRY/Guisborough/Guisborough90 |website=www.genuki.org.uk |access-date=6 July 2022}} Hutton Village is {{convert|2|mi}} south-west of Guisborough, set in a narrow dale that carries the Hutton Beck northwards towards Guisborough and Skelton Beck.{{sfn|HHCA|2004|p=3}}{{cite book |last1=White |first1=William |title=History, gazetteer and directory of the East and North Ridings of Yorkshire |date=1840 |publisher=Robert Leader |location=Sheffield |page=672|oclc=1008476555}}{{cite web |title=Skelton Beck Catch (Saltburn) trib of North Sea {{!}} Catchment Data Explorer {{!}} Catchment Data Explorer |url=https://environment.data.gov.uk/catchment-planning/WaterBody/GB103025071970?cycle=1 |website=environment.data.gov.uk |access-date=7 July 2022 |quote=Use map zoom to see the beck through Hutton Village}}

File:Hanging Stone in Hanging Stone Wood - geograph.org.uk - 1628824.jpg

A nunnery was founded at Hutton Lowcross in the middle of the 12th century; however, the nuns soon moved on to another site in Nunthorpe, further west.{{sfn|Ord|1846|p=237}} The area also had a leper hospital, the exact location of which is unknown, and it was lost before the Dissolution.{{cite web |title=Hospitals: Lowcross - Pontefract {{!}} British History Online |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/yorks/vol3/pp314-321 |website=www.british-history.ac.uk |access-date=7 July 2022}}{{cite web |title=Hutton Lowcross |url=https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16&lat=54.51801&lon=-1.07551&layers=168&b=1 |website=maps.nls.uk |access-date=7 July 2022 |quote=The site of the Leper Hospital is marked on the map north west of the village}} In the woods behind the village is a large outcrop of sandstone known as the Hanging Stone. The name is thought to derive from its precarious position, rather than anyone being hanged there.{{cite news |last1=Reid |first1=Mark |title=Bousdale Wood & the Hanging Stone |url=https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/resources/files/32890 |access-date=7 July 2022 |work=The Northern Echo |date=25 September 2004}}

From the 1850s onwards, the area was part of the ironstone mining industry of Cleveland. A mine was situated to the south of the village, for which an inclined branch railway was built connecting with the Middlesbrough and Guisborough Railway between {{rws|Hutton Gate}} and {{rws|Pinchinthorpe}} stations. The inclined railway ran right through the middle of Hutton Village.{{cite book|last=Tuffs|first=Peter|title=Catalogue of Cleveland Ironstone Mines|year=1996|publisher=Tuffs|location=Guisborough|page=16|oclc=35135777}}{{cite web |title=Hutton Ironstone Mine |url=https://east-clevelands-industrial-heartland.co.uk/hutton-ironstone-mine/ |website=east-clevelands-industrial-heartland.co.uk |access-date=6 July 2022 |date=28 February 2017}} Besides a seam of ironstone in the area, jet was also found to be in abundance to the south of the village. The jet found in and around Hutton Lowcross was considered to be of the highest quality, and examples can still be found in the waters of Hutton Beck.{{sfn|HHCA|2004|p=17}}

In 1855, houses were built in what is now known as Hutton Village. These were mostly terraced houses, however, more housing was built in the early part of the 20th century just to the north of the village.{{sfn|HHCA|2004|pp=6–7}} The rise in population was due to the ironstone workings in the area, and this is reflected in the housing and population statistics which show that in 1851, 49 people lived in the Hutton Lowcross township, but by 1861, this had risen to 271.{{cite web |title=Hutton Lowcross North Riding |url=https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/13058 |website=visionofbritain.org.uk |access-date=6 July 2022}} Similarly, the number of houses in 1851 was nine, but ten years later, the number of dwellings was 53.{{cite book |title=Census of England and Wales for the year 1861 |date=1862 |publisher=Census Office |location=London |page=639 |quote=The large increases in population of the townships of Eston, Ormesby, Normanby, Upsall, Guisborough and Hutton Lowcross is mainly attributed to the opening of ironstone workings and blast furnaces|oclc=41192273}} In 1864, Sir Joseph Pease employed Alfred Waterhouse to design Hutton Hall, a large country house to the north of the village.{{cite ODNB|first=Colin|last=Cunningham|title=Waterhouse, Alfred|id=36758|date=23 September 2004}}{{NHLE|desc=Hutton Hall, Conservatory, Kitchen Courtyard and Gatehouse |num=1139779 |grade=II|access-date=6 July 2022 }} Hutton Gate railway station was built near the village in the 1850s. Originally it was a private station for the Pease family, but in 1904, it became a public station until its closure in 1964.{{cite book |last1=Hoole |first1=K. |title=Railway stations of the North East |date=1985 |publisher=David & Charles |location=Newton Abbot |isbn=0-7153-8527-5 |page=172}} The station site is now overgrown, with one platform still left over, and the railway trackbed is now a footpath.{{sfn|HHCA|2004|p=20}}

Historically, the village was in the parish of Guisborough and the Wapentake of Langbaurgh.{{cite web |title=Genuki: In 1822, the following places were in the Parish of Guisborough:, Yorkshire (North Riding) |url=https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/NRY/Guisborough/more |website=www.genuki.org.uk |access-date=6 July 2022}} It is now in the civil parish of Guisborough, part of the Redcar and Cleveland unitary authority in North Yorkshire.{{NOMIS2011|id=E04000263|title=Guisborough Parish|accessdate=6 July 2022}} The village comes under the Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency at Westminster.{{cite web |title=Election Maps Guisborough |url=https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/election-maps/gb/?x=460688&y=515889&z=6&bnd1=CPC&bnd2=WMC&labels=off |website=www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk |access-date=4 July 2022}} The Hutton Lowcross area was awarded conservation area status in 2004, though this was awarded by the North York Moors National Park Authority, as the village and Hutton Hall lie just within the national park boundary.{{cite news |title=Conservation area is given approval |url=https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/6978738.conservation-area-given-approval/ |access-date=6 July 2022 |work=The Northern Echo |date=13 September 2004}}{{cite map|title =North York Moors - Western area |map =OL26 |year =2017 |scale =1:25,000 |series =Explorer |publisher =Ordnance Survey |isbn =978-0-319-24265-0 }} However, the village itself is not included due to the houses having "little architectural or historic value".{{sfn|HHCA|2004|p=32}}

• Nigel Fossard, owned land at Hutton Lowcross{{cite ODNB|first=John|last=Walker|title=Fossard family|id=54505|date=23 September 2004}}
• Sir Joseph Pease, 1st Baronet, bought the estate at Hutton Lowcross (Hutton Hall) in 1867{{cite ODNB|first=Charlotte|last=Fell-Smith|title=Pease, Sir Joseph Whitwell, first baronet|id=35447|date=23 September 2004}}

• Pease baronets, designated as the Pease baronets, of Hutton Lowcross and Pinchinthorpe

{{Reflist}}

• {{cite web |title=Home Farm and Hutton Hall Appraisal |url=https://www.northyorkmoors.org.uk/planning/building-conservation/conservation-areas/conservation-area-appraisal-and-management-plans/Hutton-Lowcross.pdf |website=northyorkmoors.org.uk |access-date=6 July 2022 |date=2004|ref={{harvid|HHCA|2004}} }}
• {{cite book |last1=Ord |first1=John Walker |title=The history and antiquities of Cleveland : comprising the wapentake of East and West Langbargh{{sic}}, North Riding, County York |date=1846 |publisher=Simpkin, Marshall, and Co |location=London|oclc=1048899800}}

{{Redcar and Cleveland}}

Category:Villages in North Yorkshire

Category:Places in the Tees Valley

Category:Guisborough