Hutton

Hutton is a village and civil parish in North Somerset, on the western edge of the Mendip Hills. Its post town is Weston-super-Mare (postcode BS24). The parish had 2,582 residents at the 2011 census and includes the hamlets of Elborough, Lower Canada and Upper Canada. Local government sits with North Somerset Council.

The Mendip range runs from Weston-super-Mare and the Bristol Channel in the west to the Frome valley in the east, and the western part was designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in 1972. The Mendip Way runs 80 km (50 miles) from Weston-super-Mare to Frome. The highest point is Beacon Batch on Black Down, at 325 m (1,066 ft).

In the village, the Church of St Mary the Virgin dates from the 15th century and is Grade II* listed. Hutton Court, a 15th-century manor house, has the same listing. The village has been twinned with the Kenyan village of Dabaso since 1999. Elborough Hill, in the south-east of the parish, is an Iron Age hill fort. The Domesday Book of 1086 names the village “Hotune”, meaning roughly the enclosure on the projection of land.

Weston-super-Mare, where the Mendip Way begins, is Hutton’s post town (postcode BS24). The parish also takes in the hamlets of Elborough, Lower Canada and Upper Canada.