Hutton Buscel is a village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

in the

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district of

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, England. According to the

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, Hutton Buscel parish had a population of 320, an increase on the

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figure of 314.

History

Hutton-Buscel derives its name from it having been the "High town of the Buscel or Bushel family" whose ancestors arrived following the

Norman conquest The Norman Conquest (or the Conquest) was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army made up of thousands of Norman, Breton, Flemish, and French troops, all led by the Duke of Normandy, later styled William the Conque ...

. The parish church of St Matthew is a Grade I

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. It was built in the 12th century with additions in the 13th and 15th centuries and it underwent restoration by

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in 1855. Among the monuments in the church is one dedicated to

Richard Osbaldeston Richard Osbaldeston (1691–1764) was a Church of England clergyman and Bishop of London from 1762 to 1764. Life He was born at Hunmanby in Yorkshire, a younger son of Sir Richard Osbaldeston, a prominent landowner and a rather inactive Member ...

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, who died in 1764. Edward Baines, in his 1823 directory, lists the village as Hutton Bushel and gives the population as 419. The manor of Hutton-Buscel was purchased from the Osbaldeston family in 1839, by Marmaduke Langley. By 1848 the population had increased to 506 in the township and 811 in the parish.

Film appearances

The film ''

Smoking/No Smoking ''Smoking/No Smoking'' is a 1993 French comedy film. It was directed by Alain Resnais and written by Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri, from the play '' Intimate Exchanges'' by Alan Ayckbourn. The film starred Pierre Arditi and Sabine Azéma. I ...

'' is set in Hutton Buscel.

References

External links

* {{authority control Villages in North Yorkshire Civil parishes in North Yorkshire