Hovingham

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.{{OpenDomesday|OS=SE6675|name=hovingham|display=Hovingham|accessdate=27 December 2012}} The name 'Hovingham' means 'the village of Hofa's people'.Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p.253.

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.{{cite web|url=http://www.hovingham.org.uk/H_and_S_CommunitiesPlan2009.pdf|title=Local History|accessdate=27 December 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130808185927/http://hovingham.org.uk/H_and_S_CommunitiesPlan2009.pdf|archivedate=8 August 2013|df=dmy-all}}

The village had a station on the Thirsk and Malton branch of the North Eastern Railway.{{Butt-Stations}}

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 Council.{{cite web | url=https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-government/tools-support/open-data-support | title=OpenData support | OS Tools & Support }} The local Parish Council is a joint one with nearby Scackleton and the council has seven members including the Chair.{{cite web|url=http://www.hovingham.org.uk/parishcouncil.htm|title=Parish Council|accessdate=27 December 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130808190048/http://hovingham.org.uk/parishcouncil.htm|archivedate=8 August 2013|df=dmy-all}}

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.{{NOMIS2011|id=1170217254|title=Hovingham Parish|accessdate=18 March 2018}}

From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Ryedale.

The 1881 UK Census recorded the population as 600.{{cite book|title=Bulmer's Topography, History and Directory (Private and Commercial) of North Yorkshire 1890 |page=714|year=2002|origyear=1890 |publisher= S&N Publishing|isbn= 1-86150-299-0}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadDatasetList.do?a=7&b=798112&c=hovingham&d=16&g=476514&i=1001x1003&m=0&r=1&s=1356617482282&enc=1&domainId=15|title=2001 UK Census|accessdate=27 December 2012}} The population at the 2011 Census had marginally reduced to 362.{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11124853&c=YO62+4AS&d=16&e=62&g=6454990&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1439304881662&enc=1|title=Parish population 2011|accessdate=11 August 2015}}

The nearest settlements are Slingsby {{convert|1.75|mi}} to the east; Stonegrave {{convert|1.6|mi}} to the north; Cawton {{convert|1.9|mi}} to the north-west; Coulton {{convert|2.2|mi}} to the west south-west and Scackleton {{convert|2.1|mi}} to the south-west. The village lies at an elevation of {{convert|215|ft}} 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.

Limestone is quarried in Wath about {{convert|1|km|abbr=on|1|order=flip}} east of Hovingham.

There was one school in the village, Hovingham Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School, built by Lady Worsley in 1864 and extended in 1888. It is a Grade II Listed Building.{{cite web|url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-329062-the-village-school-and-schoolmaster-s-ho|title=School Listing|accessdate=27 December 2012}} The school lies within the catchment area of Malton School for secondary education.{{cite web|url=http://www.northyorks.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=16749|title=Education|accessdate=27 December 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20121101001719/http%3A//www.northyorks.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid%3D16749|archivedate=1 November 2012|df=dmy-all}}

The village is served by the bus route to Malton only.{{cite web|url=http://www.hovingham.org.uk/HovinghamBus27April09.pdf|title=Bus Service|accessdate=27 December 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141222105251/http://www.hovingham.org.uk/HovinghamBus27April09.pdf|archivedate=22 December 2014|df=dmy-all}} There is a village shop{{cite web |url=http://www.hovinghamstores.co.uk/our_store.html |title=Hovingham Store Gallery / Our Shop! |accessdate=2014-12-22 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160320181139/http://hovinghamstores.co.uk/our_store.html |archivedate=20 March 2016 |df=dmy-all }} as well as a bakery and tea room,{{cite web|url=https://www.google.co.uk/maps/uv?hl=en&pb=!1s0x487ed17b5d997a79:0x6a47b4074cf64d0!2m5!2m2!1i80!2i80!3m1!2i100!3m1!7e1!4shttp://www.panoramio.com/photo/110663458!5shovingham+bakery+-+Google+Search&sa=X&ei=PNKXVPCnDMy9UfeWgqgL&ved=0CHgQoiowCw|title=The Tea Rooms in Hovingham|accessdate=16 January 2016|website=www.google.co.uk}} a hotel,{{cite web |title=Hotels Malton, Helmsley, York, Ampleforth |url=http://www.worsleyarms.co.uk/ |website=worsleyarms.co.uk |access-date=10 July 2021}} a public house{{cite web |title=The Hovingham Inn |url=https://hovinghaminn.co.uk/ |website=hovinghaminn.co.uk |access-date=10 July 2021}} and other local businesses.

Hovingham Cricket Club run teams at many level, with the Senior team competing in the York & District Cricket League.{{cite web|url=http://www.yorkercricket.co.uk/Clubs/Hovingham/Directory.html|title=Cricket Club|accessdate=27 December 2012}} The village also runs a Tennis Club.{{cite web|url=http://www.hovingham.org.uk/clubs.htm|title=Sports Clubs|accessdate=27 December 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130808163857/http://hovingham.org.uk/clubs.htm|archivedate=8 August 2013|df=dmy-all}}

File:All_Saints_Church_Hovingham_(Nigel_Coates).jpg

All Saints' Church, Hovingham is Grade II* listed.{{cite web|url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-329055-church-of-all-saints-hovingham-north-yor|title=Church Listing|accessdate=27 December 2012}} 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 is of Saxon origin. An interesting feature is the large 10th-century altar cross.{{cite web|url=http://thestreetparishes.org.uk/hovingham.html|title=Hovingham ◊ The Street Parishes|publisher=thestreetparishes.org.uk|accessdate=28 June 2009}}

There is also a Methodist church in the village, which is a Grade II Listed Building.{{cite web|url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-329082-methodist-church-hovingham-north-yorkshi|title=Methodist Church Listing|accessdate=27 December 2012}}

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Hovingham has been home to the Worsley family since 1563{{cite web|url=http://www.hovingham.co.uk/home.html|title=Hovingham Hall – House and Gardens|publisher=hovingham.co.uk|accessdate=28 June 2009}} and was the childhood home of the Duchess of Kent.{{cite web|title=The Duchess of Kent – living life in the shadows|date=27 January 2015 |url=http://royalcentral.co.uk/blogs/the-duchess-of-kent-living-life-in-the-shadows-43878|publisher=Royal Central}} The sixth Thomas Worsley (1710–1778) designed and built the current Hovingham Hall.{{cite web|url=http://www.hovingham.co.uk/history.html|title=Hovingham Hall – History|publisher=hovingham.co.uk|accessdate=28 June 2009|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090601152522/http://www.hovingham.co.uk/history.html|archivedate=1 June 2009|df=dmy-all}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/england/north+yorkshire/hovingham|title=Listed Buildings|accessdate=27 December 2012}}

The Hovingham Festival was founded by local clergyman Canon Thomas Percy Hudson in 1887.[http://trinitycollegechapel.com/about/memorials/brasses/hudson/ Thomas Percy Hudson], biography by Trinity College Chapel 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.Antony Pemberton. [http://trumpingtonlocalhistorygroup.org/personalities/personalities_pemberton_family/ A Trip Round My Dining Room Walls] (2011) 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.[https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781783272051/edward-j-dent/ Arrandale, Karen. Edward J. Dent: A Life of Words and Music (2023), p. 11] Thirteen festivals were held until 1906.Drummond, Pippa.[https://books.google.com/books?id=VhugCwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Hovingham+Festival%22&pg=PA160 The Provincial Music Festival in England, 1784-1914] (2016), p. 159-60 The event was revived after 45 years during the 1950s.'[https://www.jstor.org/stable/934989 The Fourteenth Hovingham Festival]', in The Musical Times Vol. 92, No. 1303 (September 1951), p. 417

The Ryedale Festival, founded in 1981, uses Hovingham Hall as one of its concert venues.[https://ryedalefestival.com/aboutus/ Rydale Festival: 'About the Festival]

File:Hovingham.jpg|Hovingham ford

File:Hovingham Village - geograph.org.uk - 1201292.jpg|Signpost near School in centre of Hovingham

File:Hovingham Hall - geograph.org.uk - 557457.jpg|Hovingham Hall

File:Marrs Beck, Hovingham - geograph.org.uk - 1063602.jpg|Marrs Beck, Hovingham

File:Hovingham Village - geograph.org.uk - 1201290.jpg|View of Brookside from the ford through Marrs Beck

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