Howgrave is a
civil parish in the
Hambleton District of
North Yorkshire, England. It is a very small parish, with an area of only and an estimated population in 2014 of only 10. There is no modern village in the parish. The site of the
deserted medieval village
In the United Kingdom, a deserted medieval village (DMV) is a former settlement which was abandoned during the Middle Ages, typically leaving no trace apart from earthworks or cropmarks. If there are fewer than three inhabited houses the convent ...
of Howgrave lies in the west of the parish, west of the village of
Sutton Howgrave.
Despite its small size Howgrave has a complicated geography and history. Today Howgrave is divided between two civil parishes, Howgrave itself and
Sutton with Howgrave
Sutton (''south settlement'' or ''south town'' in Old English) may refer to:
Places
United Kingdom
England
In alphabetical order by county:
* Sutton, Bedfordshire
* Sutton, Berkshire, a location
* Sutton-in-the-Isle, Ely, Cambridgeshire
* Sut ...
, which, despite its name, includes only part of Howgrave. Until the 19th century both parishes were
townships in the ancient parish of
Kirklington in the
North Riding of Yorkshire
The North Riding of Yorkshire is a subdivision of Yorkshire, England, alongside York, the East Riding and West Riding. The riding's highest point is at Mickle Fell with 2,585 ft (788 metres).
From the Restoration it was used as ...
, but small parts of Howgrave were
detached parts of two other townships and parishes. A farm and a house were detached parts of the township of
Nunwick cum Howgrave
Nunwick is a village in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. It is about 1 mile north-east of Ripon.
Nunwick was historically a township in the ancient parish of Ripon in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The township included two ...
in the parish of
Ripon, and another house was a detached part of the township of
Holme cum Howgrave in the parish of
Pickhill
Pickhill is a village in North Yorkshire, England, west of Thirsk. It forms part of Hambleton District, and is a part of the civil parish of Pickhill with Roxby.
History
The Roman road, ''Dere Street'', passed close to the village following ...
.
The toponym is derived from the
Old English
Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, Anglo ...
''hol grāf'', meaning "grove in the hollow". Howgrave was mentioned in the
Domesday Book (as ''Hograve''), when different
carucates were held by three different owners, the
Earl of Richmond, the
Archbishop of York and the
Bishop of Durham.
It was considered a separate manor of Kirklington in the 16th century,
[ but by 1640 it was recorded that there were no inhabitants in the township.][ Howgrave became a separate civil parish in 1866. The detached parts of Nunwick cum Howgrave, a total of , became detached parts of the new civil parish of Nunwick cum Howgrave. In the late 19th century of the detached parts of Nunwick cum Howgrave were transferred to the civil parish of Howgrave, and of Nunwick cum Howgrave were transferred to the civil parish of Sutton Howgrave.][See parish areas in 1891 and 1901 i]
Vision of Britain: Sutton Howgrave census reports
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In 1974 Howgrave was transferred to Hambleton district in the new county of North Yorkshire. Since 1978 it has shared a grouped parish council, Kirklington with Sutton Howgrave, with the parishes of Kirklington-cum-Upsland
Kirklington-cum-Upsland is a civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England. The main settlement is Kirklington. Upsland is a single farm in the south-west of the parish.
Kirklington cum Upsland was historically a towns ...
and Sutton with Howgrave.
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Civil parishes in North Yorkshire
Deserted medieval villages in North Yorkshire
Hambleton District