Hutton Conyers is a village and civil parish

Civil parish

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 in the Harrogate district

Harrogate (borough)

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 of North Yorkshire

North Yorkshire

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, England

England

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. It is situated near the River Ure

River Ure

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 and 1 miles (1.6 km) northeast of Ripon

Ripon

Ripon is a cathedral city, market town and successor parish in the Borough of Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, located at the confluence of two streams of the River Ure in the form of the Laver and Skell. The city is noted for its main feature the Ripon Cathedral which is architecturally...

.

"Hutton Conyers, now a civil parish and formerly extra-parochial

Extra-parochial area

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, is situated in the north-west of Ripon parish on the left bank of the Ure. It covers an area of about 3,211 acres. The eastern boundary is formed by Leeming Lane, and between the lane and the village is the wide tract of Hutton Moor."

The toponym derives from the Old English

Old English language

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 hōh tūn, meaning "settlement on or by the hill spur". The second part of the name derives from the Conyers family

Conyers Baronets

The Baronetcy of Conyers of Horden was created in the Baronetage of England on 14 July 1628 for John Conyers of Horden, County Durham.Between 1099 and 1133 the then Bishop of Durham, Ralph Flambard, granted lands at Sockburn, in County Durham and Hutton, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, to a Roger...

, who held land here in the 12th century.