340 HUTTON BtJSHELL. 



gent and vert, sometimes quartering, argent a 

 cockatrice with wings raised, sable, beaked, mem- 

 bered, gules. Crest, out of a ducal crown, or, a 

 plume of five ostrich feathers, three argent and two 

 vert. 



HUTTON BUSHELL, 



Is situated in the wapentake of Pickering Lvthp ? 

 6 miles from Scarborough, 12 from Pickering, 15 

 from Malton, and 34 from York ; containing a pop- 

 ulation of419 ; and having in its parish West Ay- 

 ton, the population of which is 229. Collectively 

 648. 



This village is pleasantly situated on rising 

 ground, and is adorned with the mansion and plea- 

 sure grounds of George Osbaldestone, Esq. It 

 derived its lame from the Buscel family,* which 

 came into England with the conqueror. Reginal 

 Buscel, whose father came over with the duke of 

 .Normandy, married Alice, sister of William, abbot 

 of Whitby ; and at the time of his marriage gave 

 the church of Button, which his father had built to 

 the monastery of Whitby. Upon the site of this 

 ancient church it is thought the present one stands. 



EAST AND WEST AYTON 



Are pleasantly situated on the opposite banks of the 

 Derwent. On the slope of a pleasant field, on the 

 jr. w. of Ay ton t are the remains of an ancient castle, 



* History of Scarborough p. 331. 



