Hutton Conyers is a village and

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in the county of

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, England. It is situated near the

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and north-east of

Ripon Ripon () is a cathedral city and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. The city is located at the confluence of two tributaries of the River Ure, the Laver and Skell. Within the boundaries of the historic West Riding of Yorkshire, the ...

. The parish extends from the River Ure to the

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, and includes the village of Nunwick.

History

The village is mentioned in the ''

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'' as ''Hotone'' in the

Hallikeld Hallikeld was a wapentake, an administrative division (or ancient district) analogous to a Hundred (county division), hundred, in the historic county of the North Riding of Yorkshire. It was one of the smaller wapentakes by area and consisted of ...

hundred and was owned by Bishop of Durham St Cuthbert. Land ownership subsequently passed to the Conyers family, after whom the village derives its suffix. Thereafter it has passed through several notable local families, namely the Mallorys of Studley, the Aislabies, the Earl de Grey and thence to the Marquess of Ripon in the late 19th century. Hutton Conyers was historically an

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in the

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. It became a civil parish in 1858, from 1894 part of

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. In 1974 it was transferred to the new county of North Yorkshire. In 1988 the parish absorbed the small civil parish of Nunwick cum Howgrave. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the

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, it is now administered by the unitary

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. The

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derives from the

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''hōh tūn'', meaning ''settlement on or by the hill spur''. The second part of the name derives from the Conyers family, who held land here in the 12th century. Just outside the village, Roman remains of a watchtower have been found, articles from which now reside in the Museum in Ripon. The Leeds and Stockton branch of the North Eastern Railway used to pass through the village. Hutton Conyers is known for being the last village in England to have a steam-powered post office, closing in 2009.

Governance

The village lies within the Skipton and Ripon UK Parliament constituency. It also lies within the

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and Fountains electoral division of North Yorkshire County Council and the Wathvale ward of Harrogate District Borough Council.

Geography

The nearest settlements to the village are Ripon to the south-west; Sharow to the south-east and Melmerby, Harrogate to the north. The 2001 UK Census recorded the population of the civil parish as 203, of which 150 were over sixteen years of age, a 104 of those were in employment. There were 77 dwellings of which 36 were detached. At the 2011 census the population was given as 213. The area around Hutton Conyers has sizeable underground

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deposits which are prone to sudden collapse creating depressions to the west of the village.

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