Holme (or Holme on Swale) is a small village and

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, England. It is located near Pickhill, Sinderby and

Ainderby Quernhow Ainderby Quernhow is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. The village is situated on the B6267 Thirsk to Masham road just east of the A1(M) and is about five miles west of Thirsk. The population of the civil parish was esti ...

, on the west bank of the

River Swale The River Swale in Yorkshire, England, is a major tributary of the River Ure, which becomes the River Ouse, Yorkshire, River Ouse, that empties into the North Sea via the Humber Estuary. The river gives its name to Swaledale, the valley throu ...

. The population of the civil parish was estimated at 60 in 2014. In the 2011 census the population of the parish was included with

and Howe parishes and not counted separately. Hambleton Ales is a small brewery which started life in Holme. It has now moved to Melmerby. Holme was historically a

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in the

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Pickhill with Roxby Pickhill is a village in North Yorkshire, England, west of Thirsk. It is a part of the Civil parishes in England, civil parish of Pickhill with Roxby. History The Roman roads in Britain, Roman road, ''Dere Street'', passed close to the villa ...

in the

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. At the time of the

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in 1086 it belonged to the

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as part of his manor of

Hutton Conyers Hutton Conyers is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated near the River Ure and north-east of Ripon. The parish extends from the River Ure to the A1(M) motorway, and includes the village of Nunwi ...

and

Howgrave Howgrave is a civil parish in 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 of ...

. The township formed a detached part of the

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Allertonshire Allertonshire or Allerton was a wapentake and liberty in the North Riding of Yorkshire, England. Northallerton, current name of Allerton, was historically associated with the Bishopric of Durham, being an ecclesiastical peculiar and exclave ...

, and retained a detached part at Howgrave, west of the village, apparently only a single farm, into the 19th century. The township was for that reason referred to as Holme cum Howgrave. Holme became a separate civil parish in 1866.Vision of Britain website
/ref> From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Hambleton, it is now administered by the unitary

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