HUTTONS AMBO              

This parish lies on the north-west bank of the river Derwent, just inside the North Riding of Yorkshire.  It is made up of  the two villages of High and Low Hutton, hence the addition of Ambo (Latin)  meaning 'both', to its name.

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The village of High Hutton stands on higher ground, about a mile from the river and three miles S.W. of Malton. Low Hutton village is situated on the west bank of the Derwent, about half-a-mile from High Hutton

Huttons Ambo had 390 inhabitants in 1801. It seems likely that Christopher  Midgley was a cottager who owned several strips in the large open fields around the village, and grazed his animals on the waste and common land. In 1805 the owners of four-fifths of the land at Huttons Ambo petitioned parliament and obtained an Enclosure Act.  Such an Act of Parliament was needed when the poorer landowners (like Christopher) objected to the large open fields and commons being enclosed. Christopher Midgley would have lost his grazing rights and, almost certainly, would have been unable to meet the cost of hedges or fences around his new plot. Land tax records and parish registers suggest the Midgleys left here by 1806.