Hildenley is a former civil parish, now in the parish of Amotherby, 2 miles (3.2 km) south-west of Malton, North Yorkshire, England, on the north bank of the River Derwent.

[8] In 1565, the estate and its quarries were purchased by the navigator William Strickland, grandfather of Sir William Strickland, 1st Baronet, and the Elizabethan house likely built in the 17th or 18th century.

[11] George Strickland, of Hildenley, represented the county of Yorkshire in the British Parliament in the 19th century.

[1] The eighth baronet was a keen botanist and built a large conservatory and other structures for nature.

After his death on 31 December 1909, Hildenley Hall was described thus by the Linnean Society: "The Hall, although not a very large building, is a comfortable residence, built in a well sheltered site at the base of a steep wooded bank of limestone formation known as Hildenley Wood, which is a relic of the ancient forest-land of Yorkshire and has never been under cultivation, and is the home of some of the rarest of our British native orchids and other rare kinds of the wild flora of Britain.