The settlement of Sand Hutton is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Yarlestre in Yorkshire.

At the time of the survey, Sand Hutton supported a recorded population of 6 smallholders, 1 slave, working 1 plough between them.

By 1086 Sand Hutton was worth 15d, up from 0d before the Conquest – a sign this community came through the Conquest without being ruined.

Resources Recorded at Sand Hutton (1086)

Woodland: 40 * 40 perches

Other Settlements in Yarlestre

The Meaning of the Name

The name Sand Hutton 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 Sand Hutton.

Listed Buildings Near Sand Hutton

Historic England records 5 listed buildings within about a mile of Sand Hutton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Winns Cottage - 0.49 km
Harker House - 0.52 km
Glenroyd - 0.54 km
Methodist Chapel - 0.59 km
The Hollies - 0.64 km

Sand Hutton Today

Today Sand Hutton lies within the administrative area of Hambleton, and the settlement recorded a population of 246 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 Sandhutton on Wikipedia .