Moulton is a small village and

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in the county of

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, England. It lies in a secluded valley between the villages of Scorton and Middleton Tyas. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of

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, it is now administered by the unitary

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Amenities

Moulton Hall Moulton Hall is a grade I listed 17th-century manor house in Moulton, North Yorkshire, Moulton near Richmond, North Yorkshire, England. The hall is built to a rectangular plan in three storeys with cellar and attics of ashlar and rubble with ...

is a 17th-century manor house, owned and maintained by the

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, it was formerly tenanted by

Viscount Eccles Viscount Eccles, of Chute in the County of Wiltshire, England, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 14 January 1964 for the Conservative politician David Eccles, 1st Baron Eccles. He had already been created Baron E ...

and his wife, the

Baroness Eccles of Moulton Baron is a rank of nobility or title of honour, often Hereditary title, hereditary, in various European countries, either current or historical. The female equivalent is baroness. Typically, the title denotes an aristocrat who ranks higher than ...

. It is possible to gain admission via prior arrangement with the tenant. The village pub is called the Black Bull inn.

History

Moulton is mentioned in the ''

Domesday Book Domesday Book ( ; the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of William the Conqueror. The manuscript was originally known by ...

'' as the residence of a

Saxon The Saxons, sometimes called the Old Saxons or Continental Saxons, were a Germanic people of early medieval "Old" Saxony () which became a Carolingian " stem duchy" in 804, in what is now northern Germany. Many of their neighbours were, like th ...

named Ulph. After 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 Normans, Norman, French people, French, Flemish people, Flemish, and Bretons, Breton troops, all led by the Du ...

the manor was transferred to the Earls of Richmond. Moulton changed hands many times, belonging to the Marshall, Wright, Smithson, and Shuttleworth families. The artist

George Cuitt the Elder George Cuitt the Elder (1743–1818) was a British painter. Cuitt was born at Moulton, North Yorkshire, Moulton, in Yorkshire, and having shown a natural taste for drawing and design was sent to Italy at the expense of Sir Sir Lawrence Dundas, ...

was born in Moulton.

Transport

The village lies just to the east of the A1, but access from the village has been restricted to southbound traffic via Scurragh Lane since the early 1990s. Motorists intending to travel north must head to

Scotch Corner Scotch Corner is a junction of the A1(M) and A66 trunk roads near Richmond in North Yorkshire, England. It has been described as "the modern gateway to Cumbria, the North East and Scotland", and is a primary destination signed from as f ...

via the local road. When the A1(M) extension opens, Scurragh Lane will afford a Local Access Road (LAR) going northwards to Scotch Corner only. The village is served by a rural bus route between Darlington and Richmond. The former railway station at Moulton End (3 miles away) is named after Moulton, but the nearest station was actually Scorton railway station. Both stations closed in 1969 with the abandonment of the Eryholme-Richmond branch line.

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