[3] The Yorkshire Wolds Way National Trail, a long distance footpath passes to the north of the village.Population at the time was 413, with occupations including fourteen farmers, one of whom was also a butcher, a carpenter, two shopkeepers, a tailor, and a shoemaker.The ecclesiastical parish rector and curate, and the vicar of the village of Warter resided in Huggate.[6] In the early 1940s, the site was surveyed for a bomber base, and building nearly went ahead, but a better location was found further west, which became RAF Full Sutton.It also gave the pilots and ground crew the experience of using the steel mesh airstrip in a field with no facilities.