Hutton Rudby

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Hutton Rudby
Yorkshire
North Riding

Hutton Rudby village hall, renovated in 2004
Location
Grid reference: NZ467065
Location: 54°27’0"N, 1°16’44"W
Data
Population: 1,572  (2011)
Post town: Yarm
Postcode: TS15
Dialling code: 01642
Local Government
Council: Hambleton

Hutton Rudby is a village and civil parish in the North Riding of Yorkshire, situated four miles west of the market town of Stokesley. The population of the civil parish as of the 2011 census was 1,572.[1] The civil parish originates as the township of Hutton juxta Rudby of the ancient prish of Rudby.

Geography

It is joined to the village of Rudby by a bridge spanning the River Leven.[2]

Main sights

Rudby Hall is a Grade-II* listed house, built in 1838 for Lady Amelia Cary, illegitimate daughter of King William IV, and her husband Viscount Falkland. In 2014 it was re-opened after restoration for use as a wedding venue.[3]

There is a Norman church of All Saints which stands alongside the River Leven at the bottom of Rudby Bank Hutton Rudby is also home to a cholera mound, most notable as it is the grave of some 23 people who died in the cholera outbreak of 1832.

References

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