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Hovingham is a large village and civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England. It is on the edge of the Howardian Hills and about 7 miles (11 km) south of Kirkbymoorside.

History

The name 'Hovingham' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Hovingham. The settlement lay within the Maneshou hundred. The lands at the time of the Norman invasion belonged to Orm, son of Gamal. After the invasion, the lands were granted to Hugh, son of Baldric.[2] The name 'Hovingham' means 'the village of Hofa's people'.[3]

There is evidence of Roman activity around the village which sat on the Malton to Aldburgh road in those times. During the construction of Hovingham Hall gardens, a Roman bath, tesselated pavement and other artefacts were uncovered.[4][5]

The village had a station on the Thirsk and Malton branch of the North Eastern Railway.[4][6]

Governance

The village is within the Thirsk and Malton UK Parliament constituency. It is also part of the Hovingham & Sheriff Hutton electoral division of North Yorkshire County Council and the Hovingham ward of Ryedale District Council.[7] The local Parish Council is a joint one with nearby Scackleton and the council has seven members including the Chair.[8]

An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward stretches south to Terrington with a total population taken at the 2011 Census of 1,656.[1]

Geography

The 1881 UK Census recorded the population as 600.[4] According to the 2001 UK Census, the population was 371, of which 300 were over sixteen years old and 174 of those were in employment. There were 166 dwellings, of which 59 were detached.[9] The population at the 2011 Census had marginally reduced to 362.[10]

The nearest settlements are Slingsby 1.75 miles (2.82 km) to the east; Stonegrave 1.6 miles (2.6 km) to the north; Cawton 1.9 miles (3.1 km) to the north-west; Coulton 2.2 miles (3.5 km) to the west south-west and Scackleton 2.1 miles (3.4 km) to the south-west. The village lies at an elevation of 215 feet (66 m) at its highest point and is on the B1257 Malton to Stokesley road. Marrs Beck flows northwards through the village to eventually join the River Rye near Butterwick and Brawby.[7]

Limestone is quarried in Wath about 0.6 mi (1 km) east of Hovingham.

Education

There is one school in the village, Hovingham Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School, built by Lady Worsley in 1864 and extended in 1888.[4] It is a Grade II Listed Building.[11] The school lies within the catchment area of Malton School for secondary education.[12]

Village services

The village is served by the bus route to Malton only.[13] There is a village shop[14] as well as a bakery and tea room,[15] a hotel,[16] a public house[17] and other local businesses.

Sports

Hovingham Cricket Club run teams at many level, with the Senior team competing in the York & District Cricket League.[18] The village also runs a Tennis Club.[19]

Religion

Hovingham, All Saints' Church

There is a Grade II listed church in the village dedicated to All Saints.[20] The majority of the present church building dates back to 1860, when it was rebuilt at the expense of Marcus Worsley. The tower of the parish church of All Saints is of Saxon origin.[4] An interesting feature is the large 10th-century altar cross.[21]

There is also a Methodist church in the village, which is a Grade II Listed Building.[22]

Notable buildings

Main article: Hovingham Hall

Hovingham has been home to the Worsley family since 1563[23] and was the childhood home of the Duchess of Kent.[24] The sixth Thomas Worsley (1710–1778) designed and built the current Hovingham Hall.[25] A unique feature of the Grade I listed building is that it is entered through a covered Riding School, once used for training horses.

In addition to the Hall, the School and the two Churches, there are a total of 49 other Listed Buildings in the area.[26]

Music

The Hovingham Festival was founded by local clergyman Canon Thomas Percy Hudson in 1887.[27] He persuaded the Worsley family to make their eighteenth-century riding school at Hovingham Hall available for a rural Yorkshire music festival that included leading professional musicians - including Joseph Joachim - supplementing the choirs and orchestras with local amateurs to make the cost of putting on ambitious works affordable.[28] The repertoire was ambitious, including works (alongside the classics) by contemporary British composers - Elgar, Alan Gray, Parry, Somervell, Stanford and William Sterndale Bennett, and choral works by women composers such as Laura Wilson Barker (also known as Mrs Tom Taylor) and Alexandra Thomson.[29] Thirteen festivals were held until 1906.[30] The event was revived after 45 years during the 1950s.[31]

Gallery

  • Hovingham ford
    Hovingham ford
  • Signpost near School in centre of Hovingham
    Signpost near School in centre of Hovingham
  • Hovingham Hall
    Hovingham Hall
  • Marrs Beck, Hovingham
    Marrs Beck, Hovingham
  • View of Brookside from the ford through Marrs Beck
    View of Brookside from the ford through Marrs Beck

References

  1. ^ a b UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Hovingham Parish (1170217254)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  2. ^ Hovingham in the Domesday Book. Retrieved 27 December 2012.
  3. ^ Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p.253.
  4. ^ a b c d e Bulmer's Topography, History and Directory (Private and Commercial) of North Yorkshire 1890. S&N Publishing. 1890. p. 714. ISBN 1-86150-299-0.
  5. ^ "Local History" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 August 2013. Retrieved 27 December 2012.
  6. ^ Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
  7. ^ a b "OpenData support | OS Tools & Support".
  8. ^ "Parish Council". Archived from the original on 8 August 2013. Retrieved 27 December 2012.
  9. ^ "2001 UK Census". Retrieved 27 December 2012.
  10. ^ "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 11 August 2015.
  11. ^ "School Listing". Retrieved 27 December 2012.
  12. ^ "Education". Archived from the original on 1 November 2012. Retrieved 27 December 2012.
  13. ^ "Bus Service" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2014. Retrieved 27 December 2012.
  14. ^ "Hovingham Store Gallery / Our Shop!". Archived from the original on 20 March 2016. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  15. ^ "The Tea Rooms in Hovingham". www.google.co.uk. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
  16. ^ "Hotels Malton, Helmsley, York, Ampleforth". worsleyarms.co.uk. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
  17. ^ "The Hovingham Inn". hovinghaminn.co.uk. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
  18. ^ "Cricket Club". Retrieved 27 December 2012.
  19. ^ "Sports Clubs". Archived from the original on 8 August 2013. Retrieved 27 December 2012.
  20. ^ "Church Listing". Retrieved 27 December 2012.
  21. ^ "Hovingham ◊ The Street Parishes". thestreetparishes.org.uk. Retrieved 28 June 2009.
  22. ^ "Methodist Church Listing". Retrieved 27 December 2012.
  23. ^ "Hovingham Hall – House and Gardens". hovingham.co.uk. Retrieved 28 June 2009.
  24. ^ "The Duchess of Kent – living life in the shadows". Royal Central.
  25. ^ "Hovingham Hall – History". hovingham.co.uk. Archived from the original on 1 June 2009. Retrieved 28 June 2009.
  26. ^ "Listed Buildings". Retrieved 27 December 2012.
  27. ^ Thomas Percy Hudson, biography by Trinity College Chapel
  28. ^ Antony Pemberton. A Trip Round My Dining Room Walls (2011)
  29. ^ Arrandale, Karen. Edward J. Dent: A Life of Words and Music (2023), p. 11
  30. ^ Drummond, Pippa.The Provincial Music Festival in England, 1784-1914 (2016), p. 159-60
  31. ^ 'The Fourteenth Hovingham Festival', in The Musical Times Vol. 92, No. 1303 (September 1951), p. 417
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hovingham