Hutton-le-Hole is a picturesque, unusual and historic small village on the southern fringe of the North York Moors National Park. It is all very neat: the Hutton Beck bubbles and winds through the middle of the village and between attractive stone cottages, criss-crossed by footpaths and wooden bridges, and sheep roam at will everywhere. Now much photographed, the cottages were once the overcrowded homes of weavers, smallholders and labourers, who grazed their geese, ducks, hens, horses and donkeys on the green and used the beck as a sewer. The village’s name may refer to Bronze Age burial hollows in nearby moorland.
Hutton-le-Hole is the location of the Ryedale Folk Museum, which contains rescued and reconstructed historic buildings.