Sports
The village has its own sports area with football pitches, AstroTurf football and tennis courts, grass and hard tennis courts, and a social hall on Rotsea Lane. It also had a football club, Hutton Cranswick United, whose first team played in the Central Midlands League.However in December 2011 the club ceased to exist. The only surviving football team in the village are Hutton Cranswick SRA, who ply their trade in Division Four of the East Riding County League, and are managed by club stalwarts Phil Stephenson and Scott Barron. Hutton Cranswick United Under 14s were featured in Sky Sports Magazine after they lost 24-0 to Bridlington where every player in the 12-man Bridlington squad scored.
Hutton also has a sledging area called Sandersons pit (a disused chalk pit) complete with winding sledge routes and hills. "Swinekeld Pit" (pronounced "Swinkle"), with a small stream, lies at the bottom of Southgate in Cranswick. The village used to host bonfire nights but this ceased due to a lack of funding. Blue Keld water spring is part of Hutton Cranswick.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one’s behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
Amidst thy bowers the tyrant’s hand is seen,
And desolation saddens all thy green;
One only master grasps the whole domain,
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain;”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)
“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words aimeth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)