The area is split between modest housing estates and the largely affluent Hutton Mount.

The first police officer of the Essex Constabulary to be killed whilst on active duty was Robert Bambrough, who was drowned in a pond in Hutton by the criminal whom he was escorting from Billericay Magistrates' Court on 21 November 1850.

The name given to the Training School or Residential Home situated near the village of Hutton for destitute children from the district of Poplar in the East End of London.

In 1906 the Board completed work on a self-contained community with its own stores, school, indoor swimming pool and an array of ancillary buildings alongside the accommodation for the staff and a significant number of orphans living in small groups.

However once operational the project received recognition for its good work, with a Governmental inspection in early 1914 rating the facilities as "among the best in Britain" with the children "well cared for by an efficient staff of specially selected teachers.

The hostility dragged out some time, with the children referred to as "outsiders" and thought best avoided by the local residents.

Charged with emptying it of non Hackney residents and ultimately selling it off to property developers, children began leaving for smaller establishments in and around London.

A reunion still takes place in the Essex dining hall on the Spring Bank Holiday Monday every year.

[6] Hutton All Saints' Church is a small Grade II* listed ancient structure, with a wooden steeple, containing five bells.

In 2001, generous grant funding enabled a complete refurbishment of the whole building to improve the facilities available to church and community organisations.