Hovingham Yorkshire Family History Guide
Hovingham is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.
Other places in the parish include: Wath near Malton, Wath, South Holme, Scackleton, Howthorpe, Fryton, East Ness, Coulton, Cotton, Colton, Aryholme, Airyholme with Howthorpe and Baxton Howe, and Airyholme.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1642
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1598
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Kirkdale with Nawton
- Brandsby
- Gilling
- Dalby
- Stonegrave
- Barton le Street
- Terrington
- Slingsby
- Great Edstone
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
HOVINGHAM, a village, a township, and a sub district, in Malton district, and a parish partly also in Helmsley district N. R. Yorkshire.
The village stands on the vicinal Roman road from Malton to Isurium, near the Thirsk, Malton, and Driffield railway, amid a richly wooded and picturesque tract of country, 9 miles WNW of New Malton.
It is believed to occupy the site of a Roman settlement; was once a market town; and has a post office under York, a railway station, a hotel, a church, an endowed school, and a fair on 14 Aug. A Roman bath in good preservation, and a small tessellated pavement were discovered near it in 1745; and other Roman relics have been found in the neighbourhood. Three spas, said to have stimulating and aperient properties, are at a short distance from the village; and a neat bath building, in pleasant grounds, is beside them.
The church has a fine old Saxon tower, with new stone roof; was rebuilt in 1860; comprises nave with N and S aisles, and chancel with N aisle; and shows some beautiful stone carving. Hovingham Hall, the seat of Sir W. Worsley, Bart., a modern mansion in the Italian style, is in the village.
The township comprises 3, 110 acres. Real property, £3, 796. Pop., 608. Houses, 121.
The parish contains also the townships of Scackleton, Fryton, Wath, South Holme, and Airyholme and Howthorpe in Malton district, and those of Cotton and East Ness in Helmsley district. Acres, 9, 044. Real property, exclusive of East Ness, £9, 666. Pop., 1, 208. Houses, 223. The property is not much divided.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £101. Patron, W.Worsley, Esq. Charities, £17.
The sub-district, in addition to the Malton townships of H. parish, contains all Slingsby parish, and three townships of two other parishes. Acres, 12, 754. Pop., 2, 198. Houses, 419.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Malton
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: York
- Rural Deanery: Riddal
- Poor Law Union: Malton
- Hundred: Bulmer; Ryedale
- Province: York