Hutton Magna appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Land of Count Alan

The Meaning of the Name

The name Hutton Magna is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead or village. The first element is most likely a personal name or an early descriptive term, now difficult to recover with certainty. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ‘a farmstead’.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Hutton Magna.

Listed Buildings Near Hutton Magna

Historic England records 20 listed buildings within about a mile of Hutton Magna. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

Girlington Hall Farmhouse - 1.29 km

Grade II

Church of St Mary - 0.04 km
Cross Base 4 Metres South of Church of St Mary - 0.05 km
Oak Tree Inn and Adjacent Cottage - 0.08 km
Lych Gate to Church of St Mary - 0.08 km
Garden Walls and Outbuilding to South of Hutton Hall Farmhouse - 0.1 km
Water Tap and Tablet Opposite Oak Tree Inn - 0.1 km
Hutton Hall Farmhouse - 0.12 km
Outbuildings and Yard Walls to North of Hutton Hall Farmhouse - 0.13 km
Cartshed and Granary 50 Metres North of Hutton Hall Farmhouse - 0.14 km
Hutton Farmhouse - 0.15 km
Walls to South of West Middleton Farmhouse - 0.4 km
Granary and Stable to West of West Middleton Farmhouse - 0.42 km
West Middleton Farmhouse - 0.45 km
Barn and Attached Farmbuildings to North of West Middleton Farmhouse - 0.46 km
Presbyterry to Roman Catholic Church of St Mary - 0.75 km
Old Schoolroom to North East of Roman Catholic Church of St Mary - 0.76 km
Roman Catholic Church of St Mary - 0.76 km
Railings, Piers and Gates, to West of Roman Catholic Church of St Mary - 0.77 km
Barn and Wheelhouse to South East of Hutton Fields East Farmhouse - 1.23 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Hutton Magna

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Hutton Magna:

Medieval settlement remains immediately south east of Hutton Hall - 0.06 km

Hutton Magna Today

Today Hutton Magna lies within the administrative area of County Durham, and the settlement recorded a population of 102 at the 2021 census. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Read more about modern Hutton Magna on Wikipedia .