I have never been able to spend more than a couple of hours in the village, but below I copy a note I have just sent to Richard Green (I will copy to website) re the topography of Hutton Magna. Am I right? [Of course, I cannot include here the map web address, but that will be no problem for you]
<<Not strictly concerning the Greens, especially as it concerns an era when they did not yet live at Hutton, I just found it interesting to compare the attached photo of Hutton from the air, with the map (link below). I had known from walking the track behind the church that there was evidence that the village had been partly "moved" (I would say almost certainly by the Robinsons (or their predecessors) of Hutton Hall), from very obvious field evidence (very clear on the photo). But I was not sure whether the field remains dated from, say, an outbreak of the plague, which might have decimated the village. But now I am sure that the Robinsons re-ordered the village (to improve their own view!), as you can see from the map that "Green Lane" takes a sudden eastward turn, then equally suddenly veers north, to the one-street village). The old Green Lane can beseen as a dotted-line track, leading to the Wycliffe road.
The church's position is interesting: I believe the old church was there too, so, presumably, in the middle ages, the church was to the east, rather than the west, of the village. From my cursory knowledge of the village, there are no houses earlier than, say, 1650, apart from Hutton Hall itself. So did the Robinsons do their bit of social engineering in the 17th century?>>
