Howsham is a village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

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, England. The village is home to St John's Church, Howsham and Howsham Hall. Howsham appeared as Husun in the ''

Domesday Book Domesday Book ( ; the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of William the Conqueror. The manuscript was originally known by ...

''. Historically the village was part of the

East Riding of Yorkshire The East Riding of Yorkshire, often abbreviated to the East Riding or East Yorkshire, is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It borders North Yorkshire to the north and west, S ...

until 1974. From 1974 to 2023 the village was in the

Ryedale Ryedale was a non-metropolitan district in North Yorkshire, England. It was in the Vale of Pickering, a low-lying flat area of land drained by the River Derwent, Yorkshire, River Derwent. The Vale's landscape is rural with scattered villages ...

district. It is now administered by

North Yorkshire Council North Yorkshire Council, known between 1974 and 2023 as North Yorkshire County Council, is the local authority for the non-metropolitan county of North Yorkshire, England. Since 2023 the council has been a unitary authority, being a county coun ...

. Howsham was served by Howsham railway station on the

York to Scarborough Line York is a cathedral city in North Yorkshire, England, with Roman Britain, Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers River Ouse, Yorkshire, Ouse and River Foss, Foss. It has many historic buildings and other structures, such as a Yor ...

between 1845 and 1849.

George Hudson George Hudson (probably 10 March 1800 – 14 December 1871) was an English railway financier and politician who, because he controlled a significant part of the Railway Mania, railway network in the 1840s, became known as "The Railway King"—a ...

(1800–1871), an English railway financier and politician was born in Howsham.

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File:Howsham Bridge YORYM-S220.jpg, Howsham Bridge with picnickers, August 1907 File:Cottages in Howsham - geograph.org.uk - 790637.jpg, Cottages in Howsham FIle:Howsham mill.JPG, Howsham Mill File:Howsham signal box and crossing - geograph.org.uk - 1016371.jpg, Howsham signal box and crossing

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Villages in North Yorkshire Civil parishes in North Yorkshire {{NorthYorkshire-geo-stub

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