Hutton Cranswick is a large village which looks to Driffield for many of its essential services.The town is served by two newspapers, the Driffield Times, which comes out on Wednesdays and its sister publication, the Driffield Post, which comes out on Fridays. The Driffield Times was founded in 1860 and has had various homes and is now based at Times House, Mill Street, Driffield, YO25 6TN. The Driffield Post was founded in the early 1990s. Both publications are produced by the same editorial and advertising teams.

Deputy editor Jill Pick is pictured above. E-mail her at jill.pick@yrnltd.co.uk

Hutton Cranswick is two communities just under one mile apart. They are administered by one parish council, which takes in the hamlets of Sunderlandwick and Rotsea. It stands on the Hull to Scarborough rail link so is ideally situated as a dormitory village for commuters to Hull, Beverley and Driffield. It is an agricultural area, growing roots and grain, with milling facilities on the modern industrial estate. Hutton is the smaller village and stands on higher ground, the very name Hoot meaning 'a hill'. A curiously named farm at the eastern end of the parish, adjacent to the waterway which leads into the river Hull, is Corps Landing, the legend being that corpses were landed there for burial. St Peter's Church is at Hutton. The focal point of Cranswick is the village green, a six and a half acre conservation area. There is a children's playground in one corner of the green. Country lanes, farms and fields have attractive names - Hobman Lane, Howl Lane, Sheepman Lane, Ricklepits, Clay Floors, Scurfe Dyke and Botany Bay. The whole area is criss-crossed with rights of way, used by local people before roads were made, and now used for rambling.