Hutton-le-Hole
Hutton-le-Hole in the North Yorkshire Moors is one of the most beautiful and most photographed villages in North Yorkshire, a settlement of stone cottages scattered on both sides of the Hutton Beck across the village green whose combination of the stream, the green, the grazing sheep and the moorland visible above creates one of the most complete and most immediately appealing English village scenes available in the national park. The Ryedale Folk Museum in the village provides one of the finest open-air museums of traditional English rural life in the north of England.
The Ryedale Folk Museum houses an exceptional collection of traditional buildings from across the North Yorkshire Moors that have been relocated and reconstructed on the museum site, creating an open-air village of cruck houses, thatched cottages, craft workshops and agricultural buildings that represents the rural built environment of the North Yorkshire Moors from the medieval period to the twentieth century. The working demonstrations of traditional crafts provide the most engaging interaction with the heritage on display.
The village of Hutton-le-Hole itself, with its scattered cottages, the sheep grazing freely on the green and the stream dividing the village into two sections connected by bridges, provides one of the finest examples of an organic moorland village settlement in Yorkshire. The walking from the village onto the surrounding moorland provides immediate access to the North Yorkshire Moors landscape of heather and wide sky that frames the village.