Hutton-le-Hole

The village appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Hoton. 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, but the full name appears only in the 19th century. Near the end of the 13th century, the village was granted to St Mary's Abbey, York. In the 1600s the village was mainly inhabited by Quakers working as weavers or in agriculture. The Quaker evangelist John Richardson died there in 1753 at the age of 87. About four miles away stands the Kirkbymoorside Quaker Meeting House, built in 1690; it was much modified in 1790 and extended about 1810. It remains a Grade II listed building. John…

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." 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. It has a large pay-and-display car park at the north end. 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. The museum covers 13 rescued and reconstructed historic buildings, including an Iron Age round…