Hovingham North Yorkshire Best place to live in England Tourist Attraction |Travel vlog
Published 2024-04-21
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, tessellated pavement and other artifacts were uncovered.
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. The local Parish Council is a joint one with nearby Scackleton and the council has seven members including the Chair.
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. The 1881 UK Census recorded the population as 600.
Hovingham has been home to the Worsley family since 1563 and was the childhood home of the Duchess of Kent. The sixth Thomas Worsley (1710β1778) designed and built the current Hovingham Hall. A unique feature of the grade 1 listed building is that the main entrance is through a high roofed 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.
Sir Thomas Worsley was also responsible for the construction, architecture and consistency of most of the village, which to this day retains its appeal.
THE PARISH CHURCH of All Saints is of Saxon origin. The majority of the present building dates back to 1860 when it was rebuilt around the tower, which dates from Saxon days. A carved stone slab on the exterior of the church is believed to date from AD 800 and a centre point inside the church is the large 10th century altar cross.
The Grade II listed Methodist Chapel Hovingham Methodist Chapel is part of the Ryedale Methodist Circuit. The Chapel was originally the Wesleyan Chapel. Built in 1815 but there were Dissenters Meeting Houses in the village in the 1760s.
The only school in the village is the Church of England sponsored Primary School built by Lady Worsley in 1864 and extended in 1888. It is also a Grade II Listed Building.
Extract from Kelly's Directory of 1889
HOVINGHAM is a township, parish and small market town, situated 9 miles west-north-west from Malton and 8 south-east from Helmsley, having a station on the Thirsk and Malton branch of the North Eastern railway; it is in the Thirsk and Malton division of the Riding, wapentake of Ryedale, Malton union, petty sessional division and county court district, rural deanery of Helmsley, archdeaconry of Cleveland and diocese of York.
The church of All Saints is an ancient edifice of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch and a western tower, partly of Norman date, and containing a clock and 6 bells, hung in 1878 by public subscription at a cost of Β£600. The church was rebuilt and enlarged in 1860; there are 300 sittings. The Cemetery, of 1Β½ acres, is situated at the north side of the village. Here are four almshouses, erected in 1870 by Mrs. Worsley, for aged widows, and supported by her.
About a mile from the village is The Spa, which is much visited during the summer months by invalids; the waters are of a sulphursodaic character, and there is also a copious and very strong chalybeate spring, and one of pure rock water: the present proprietor, Sir William Cayley Worsley Bart D.L. J.P., has erected, at considerable expense, suitable baths, a spa villa, gardens and pump room, for the accomnmoilation of visitors.
The Worsley Arms hotel, in the centre of the village, is a large and well-built house, with good bedrooms. Wednesday is market day, but the market is discontinued. Hovingham Hall is a handsome mansion of stone in the Italian style, built by and from the designs of Thomas Worsley Esq., c1750.
Markets Dates
4th May Hovingham Playground Group
1st June Hovingham Bell Ringers
6th July Hovingham All Saints Church
3rd August Hovingham Bell Ringers
7th September Scackleton Church
5th October Hovingham Playground Group
2nd November Hovingham Tennis Club
7th December Christmas Market Hovingham Project Purple
21st December Special Christmas Market Scackleton Action Group
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Thanks for taking us along to Hovingham. Such a great town. Beautiful views of the cows, church, buildings, river and shops. Have a lovely day my friend.ππ
