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Hutton Magna is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.5075°, -1.8055°.

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Hutton Magna

Hutton Magna in England North East, United Kingdom.

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Hutton Magna is a place of interest in England North East, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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Hutton Magna is a village and civil parish in County Durham, England. Situated 7.6 miles (12.2 km) southeast of Barnard Castle. Lying within the historic boundaries of the North Riding of Yorkshire, the village along with the rest of the former Startforth Rural District has been administered by County Durham since 1 April 1974, under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972. The civil parish also includes the hamlet of Lane Head.

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History

The name "Hutton Magna" translates to "large farm on a hill" with the word magna being the Latin word for "large", possibly to distinguish it from the hamlet of Little Hutton to the east. Known simply as Hutton, the village was recorded in the Domesday Book, with a population of 11 households. In 1288/9 Margaret de Neville settled the manor of Hutton Magna on herself for life. In 1870-72 John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Hutton Magna as:<blockquote>"a village and a township in Teesdale district, and a parish partly also in Richmond district, N. R. Yorkshire. The village stands 1¾ mile S of the river Tees, 4 S by W of Winston r. station, and 6½ SE by E of…

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