LUTTONS AMBO is a parish formed in, 1874 and comprises West Lutton and East Lutton, formerly constituting a detached portion of the parish of Weaverthorpe, the parish of Helperthorpe intervening. West Lutton is a small village, 6 ½ miles south-south-west from Weaver-thorpe station and 7 ½ miles east-south-east from Rillington station on the York and Scarborough branch of the North Eastern railway, 10 south-east from Malton and 13 north-west from Drifiield, in the Buckrose wapentake and division of the Riding, petty sessional division of Buckrose, Drifiield union and county court district, rural deanery of Buckrose, archdeaconry of the East Riding and diocese of York. The church of St. Mary, erected in 1874-5, in place of an earlier structure, by Sir Tatton Sykes bart. at a cost of £13,125, is a building of stone in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, organ chamber, south porch and a western turret containing 3 bells: portions of a Norman archway have been built in over the vestry door: all the windows are stained and were presented by Sir Tatton Sykes bart. who also gave the chancel screen and the handsome triptych over the communion table: the chancel is vaulted, and retains stone sedilia and a piscina: the church affords 108 sittings: there was no burial ground until 1876, when ground was obtained around the church and inclosed by a stone wall with a handsome gateway, at the expense of Sir Tatton Sykes bart.: the churchyard was consecrated in 1901. The register dates from the year 1875. The living, formerly consolidated with that of Helperthorpe, was separated from it by an Order in Council, October 23, 1874; it is now a vicarage, net yearly value £176, including 187 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Sir Tatton Sykes bart. and held since 1904 by the Rev. William Sparrow M.A. of Trinity College, Dublin. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. The trustees of the late Thomas Ness, who are lords of the manor, and Hugh A. Cholmley esq. of Rillington, are the principal landowners. The soil is light; subsoil, chalk rock. The chief crops are barley, oats and turnips. The area is 2,595 acres; rateable value, £2,069; the population in 1911 was 317.

Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1910, for 80 children; average attendance, 78.