Sutton Howgrave is a village in the Hambleton District of North Yorkshire, England. It is the only village in the civil parish of Sutton with Howgrave. The population of the parish was estimated at 70 in 2014. The 2011 census population figure of 315 also includes the parishes of

Howgrave 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 de ...

and

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 ...

. Sutton Howgrave was mentioned in the Domesday Book (as ''Sudtone'') and in the Middle Ages it was a

manor Manor may refer to: Land ownership *Manorialism or "manor system", the method of land ownership (or "tenure") in parts of medieval Europe, notably England *Lord of the manor, the owner of an agreed area of land (or "manor") under manorialism *Man ...

in the 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 ...

. It remained a township of Kirklington until 1866, when it became a separate civil parish, now known as Sutton with Howgrave. Despite its name, the parish of Sutton with Howgrave does not include all of

, which is a separate civil parish. The civil parish of Sutton with Howgrave became part of Hambleton district in North Yorkshire in 1974. Since 1978 it has shared the grouped parish council of Kirklington with Sutton Howgrave with the parishes of

and Howgrave.

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Villages in North Yorkshire Hambleton District {{Hambleton-geo-stub