Qualla: Hutton-le-Hole

Hutton-le-Hole: Introduction

Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Peter K Burian, CC BY-SA 4.0. The sheep do the mowing at Hutton-le-Hole. They wander across the village green whenever they like, cropping the grass to a careful uneven length, stepping aside for the wooden bridges that cross the beck. The stream splits the green in two, criss-crossed by footpaths, criss-crossed by sheep. A Victorian writer once described this village as ill-planned and untidy, overcrowded with the homes of weavers and labourers, manure piled everywhere and the beck used as a common sewer. Conde Nast Traveler now lists it among the twenty most beautiful villages in the UK and Ireland. Both descriptions are about the same place. The sheep have not noticed the change in reputation.

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Hutton-le-Hole: Hoton in the Domesday Book

Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Sam and Ned, CC BY-SA 2.0. The village appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Hoton. It has been spelled Hege-Hoton, Hoton under Heg, and Hewton over the centuries; the modern Hutton-le-Hole - meaning roughly the place of the burial ground near the hollow - did not settle in until the 19th century. Near t...

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Hutton-le-Hole: The Folk Museum

Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Pauline E, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Ryedale Folk Museum at the southern end of the village is the kind of thing Britain does well: thirteen rescued historic buildings collected and reconstructed in one field. An Iron Age round house. An Elizabethan manor. Thatched cottages. Period shops and workshops, including...

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Hutton-le-Hole: Twenty-Nine Grade Twos

Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit GhostInTheMachine, CC BY-SA 4.0. Hutton-le-Hole carries twenty-nine Grade II-listed buildings - most of them 18th-century stone cottages with red pantiled roofs in the Yorkshire idiom. There is a 1935 K6 telephone box, the classic Giles Gilbert Scott design painted Post Office red, still in service. There is a s...

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Hutton-le-Hole: Walking to Lastingham

Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Akafudge, CC BY-SA 4.0. The walk that the National Park Authority recommends is two miles long and ends at the ancient church of St Mary in Lastingham, where a Saxon crypt has stood since 1078 above the bones of Saint Cedd. You leave Hutton-le-Hole past the Folk Museum, cross fields stitched with drysto...

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