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Huttons Ambo
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following section headings:
- Farndale
family history and Huttons Ambo
- Huttons Ambo,
overview
- Timeline of
Hutton’s Ambo history
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The Farndales of Sheriff Hutton
There is a
significant branch of the
Ampleforth Line, particularly descending from William Farndale (FAR00286) who
lived in Huttons Ambo by 1871.
Huttons Ambo, overview
Huttons Ambo
is a civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire. It is about 22 km
north-east of York and 5 km) south-west of Malton. The civil parish of Huttons
Ambo consists of the villages of High Hutton and Low Hutton.
Huttons Ambo
is really two villages, High Hutton and Low Hutton. Ambo
is latin for 'both', so Huttons Ambo means 'Both
Huttons'.
Hutton, the toponym, derives from the Old
English hōh tūn, meaning settlement on or by the hill
spur. Ambo, the suffix, is Latin indicating the combination of the two
villages into the one parish.
In the
Medieval times Huttons Ambo consisted of three settlements, Hutton Bardolf,
Hutton Colswayn and Hutton Mynchon, which gradually evolved into the current two
villages.
Timeline of Hutton’s Ambo history
1086
Huttons Ambo
originally consisted of three manors Hutton Colswayn , Hutton Bardolf
and Hutton Mynchon, eventually these evolved into the
two villages existing today. It had been split into two main parts, even before
the time of the Norman Conquest.
The villages
of High and Low Hutton are mentioned in the Domesday book as Hotun in
the Bulford hundred. The lands were divided between Cnut, son of Karli, Thorkil
and Thorbrand son of Kalri.
After the
Norman invasion, the lands were split between the King and Berengar of Tosny.
The Victoria County History – Yorkshire, A History of the
County of York North Riding: Volume 2 Parishes: Huttons Ambo, 1923: Two
'manors' in Hutton or Hutton-Upon-Derwent in the reign of Edward the Confessor
were held by Cnut and Torchil, and together were
assessed at 8½ carucates. In the Domesday Survey both are found among the lands
of the Conqueror. Five and a half
carucates afterwards came 'by the gift of a certain King of England' either to Colswayn or an ancestor of Colswayn
by the serjeanty of guarding the gate of York Castle.
The land at
Low Hutton owned by the King, has been named Hutton Colswayn,
whilst the land near Hutton Hill has been known as Hutton Mynchon. The land at High Hutton has been known as Hutton
Bardolf. All these suffixes indicate the names of the landowners of those
times.
The Colswayn family may have been given the land by the Crown
for duties performed guarding York Castle. The titles passed on to the Bolton
family.
The other
lands came into the possession of the Gower family, some of whom held the office
of High Sheriff of York, such as Sir Thomas Gower. Memorials to members of this
family can seen in the Church.
Thirteenth century
The Victoria County History – Yorkshire, A History of the
County of York North Riding: Volume 2 Parishes: Huttons Ambo, 1923: In
the 13th century Hutton fell into the three main divisions of
Hutton-upon-Derwent (more often known as Colswayn
Hutton), Hutton Bardolf and Hutton Mynchon.
Excavations in
the 1950s revealed evidence of 12th- or 13th-century fortified buildings at the
south end of the village of Low Hutton near the river.
The Victoria County History – Yorkshire, A History of the
County of York North Riding: Volume 2 Parishes: Huttons Ambo, 1923: The
first tenant of whom any record has been preserved was the Colswayn,
who held it by serjeanty in the 12th century, and may himself have been the
original recipient of the royal gift. In 1261, when the serjeanty was claimed
for his descendant John Bolton, Colswayn's tenure was
declared to date from time immemorial. Possibly he was the heir of an earlier Colswayn, from whom both the serjeanty and
Hutton-upon-Derwent were sometimes named. Alan de Hutton, his son and heir, alienated his inheritance to his cousin Ralph,
son of Colswayn's brother Bernard, who held the
serjeanty between 1210 and 1217. His elder daughter Alice brought it and some
part of the land with which it was associated to her husband John Doget. In the meantime Alan de
Hutton had been succeeded by a son and heir of the same name, who in the reign
of Richard I retained a share of Colswayn's lands.
This was probably the moiety of the vill of Hutton,
which, after the death of Ralph son of Bernard, Ralph
the second Alan's son and heir held of John Doget in
accordance with the agreement made by his grandfather. From Ralph son of Alan,
whose son, another Alan, seems to have died before his father, the rights of
the descendants of Colswayn passed to his daughter
Eleanor wife of Thomas de Bolton. In 1249 Thomas and Eleanor sued various
persons, chief of whom were John Doget and his wife
Alice and Muriel widow of Ralph son of Bernard, for
certain tenements in Colswayn Hutton which Eleanor
claimed as part of the fee of her grandfather Alan in the reign of Richard I.
Huttons Ambo
lends its name to a specific type of Medieval pottery produced here in the 13th
Century consisting of large, unglazed storage jars.
Topographical
Dictionaries, A Topographical Dictionary of England Hutton-Buscel
– Huyton, 1848: Huttons Ambo (St. Margaret), a parish, in the union of
Malton, wapentake of Bulmer, N. riding of York, 3 miles (N. E.) from Whitwell;
consisting of High and Low Hutton, and containing 408
inhabitants. The parish is bounded on the east by the river Derwent, and
comprises by computation 2300 acres, chiefly arable, with an intermixture of
wood and meadow; the surface is undulated, the soil of various quality, and the
scenery picturesque. The village of Low Hutton, or Hutton upon-Derwent, is on
the banks of the river, and High Hutton stands near the road from York to
Malton. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £93; patron, the
Archbishop of York; impropriators, Lord Macdonald, the Earl of Carlisle, and
others. The tithes were commuted for land in 1805. The church is small. There
is a place of worship for Wesleyans.
1856
Miss
Bilton
of Huttons Ambo sent 72 pairs of warm stockings to soldiers fighting in the
Crimean War (John Rushton, The History of
Ryedale, 2003, 352).
1857
1858
At a time of
pressure for modesty in local traditions, the Huttons Ambo race for the bride’s
garter, was adapted to become a chase for a ribbon (John
Rushton, The History of Ryedale, 2003, 353).
1923
The
Victoria County History – Yorkshire, A History of the
County of York North Riding: Volume 2 Parishes: Huttons Ambo, 1923: Huttons Ambo is bounded on the east and
south by the Derwent, on the west by the little stream of the Cram Beck. Of its
area of 2,898 acres on a subsoil of Corallian Beds
and Inferior Oolite 1,285 acres are arable land, the chief crops being wheat, oats and barley, 1,371 acres permanent grass and 166 acres
woods and plantations. The high road from York leads north-east through Huttons
Ambo into New Malton, whilst the York and Scarborough branch of the North Eastern railway runs through the south of the parish.
The land varies in height from 850 ft. above the ordnance datum at High Hutton
to 50 ft. on the river banks.
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