Howe is a small village and
civil parish in the county of
North Yorkshire
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, England. It is situated near
Ainderby Quernhow and the
A61 and west of
Thirsk. The population of the civil parish was estimated at 20 in 2015.
[ In the 2011 census the population of the parish was included with Ainderby Quernhow and Holme parishes and not counted separately.]
From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of
Hambleton, it is now administered by the unitary
North Yorkshire Council.
Howe, from the
Old Norse
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word ''haugr'', is a
Middle English
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topographic name for a small hill or a man-made mound or barrow. Howe was historically a
township in the
ancient parish of
Pickhill with Roxby in the
North Riding of Yorkshire. At the time of the
Domesday Book
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in 1086 it belonged to
Count Alan of Brittany. In the Middle Ages the manor belonged to
St Leonard's Hospital, York. Howe became a separate civil parish in 1866.
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See also
* Listed buildings in Howe, North Yorkshire
References
Villages in North Yorkshire
Civil parishes in North Yorkshire
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