HUBY is a township and village 1 mile north-west from Suttun-on-the-Forest and 3 ½ east from Tollerton station on the main line of the North Eastern railway. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, and a Friends’ Meeting house, in which services are held at intervals of about one month. A feast is held here the third Sunday in June: at the extremity of the village is a may-pole, 60 feet in height and painted with various colours. Sir George Orby Wombwell bart. of Newburgh Priory, is lord of the manor. The soil is various, but chiefly sand and clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, turnips and potatoes. The acreage is 4,659; rateable value, £4,138; the population in 1911 was 459.