Huby offers several starting points for planning your trip: historic houses from different periods, a community-owned village shop and a walk to Huby. When choosing where to stay, you can decide whether to focus on architectural history, gaining an insight into village life or getting active.
Historic houses and their architectural history
Huby Old Hall is a Grade II listed cottage. Its surviving architectural features include parts dating from the mid-17th century and the 18th century. New Parks is a Grade II listed house dating from the 17th century. According to tradition, it was a former hunting lodge of James I. The two buildings therefore have different historical associations: Huby Old Hall is noted for remains from two centuries, while New Parks is characterised by its period and the traditional account of its history as a hunting lodge.
Kelsit Grange adds another aspect to this picture: it is a farmhouse built around 1700 and remodelled in the 19th century. Its floor plan is L-shaped, with a two-storey gabled range and a rear lean-to extension. This description gives a clear sense of both the arrangement of the building’s sections and their different roof forms. Its architectural history is therefore not just a matter of dates; the floor plan and later alterations are also part of its architectural context.
Newton Farmhouse and Cottage probably dates from the late 18th century. A chapel in Huby was built in 1894. These dates offer another point of comparison: they range from the 17th- and 18th-century remains at Huby Old Hall, through Kelsit Grange, built around 1700, to the late-19th-century chapel. If you are interested in architecture, Huby offers several different building types and periods, rather than focusing on just one era.
Walk 9 to Huby
Walk 9 runs from Easingwold Golf Course to Huby and is 3½ miles long. The starting point, destination and distance give you a practical framework for planning if you want to include some exercise in your trip. You can make the walk a focus in its own right or consider it alongside the cultural and historical themes: here, the emphasis is on a named route; elsewhere, it is on the architectural history of the houses and chapel.
Village shop and local produce
The Huby & Sutton Community Shop is a community-owned village shop and post office counter run by volunteers. Its range includes honey from Helperby, homemade preserves and pickles from Sutton, fresh meat from Tholthorpe, pies from Easingwold and cakes from Sutton-on-the-Forest. These products bring different places into the picture through their sources and give shopping a tangible local connection. As product availability and opening arrangements can change, it is best to check the shop’s current information before making a special trip to buy something.
When choosing where to stay, you can weigh up these different interests: the architectural history of the cottage, house, farmhouse and chapel; the 3½-mile walk to Huby; or the village shop and its local produce. The facts do not prescribe a single itinerary for the day; rather, they help you decide whether Huby suits the focus of your trip.
Discover more destinations: Clapham, Hunmanby, Hackness, Long Preston, Pateley Bridge, Otterburn, Stearsby, Tockwith.
For the broader travel overview: North Yorkshire.
