Howgrave is a

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in the

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, England. It is a very small parish, with an area of only and an estimated population in 2014 of only 10. There is no modern village in the parish. The site of the

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of Howgrave lies in the west of the parish, west of the village of

Sutton Howgrave Sutton Howgrave is a village in the Hambleton District of North Yorkshire, England. It is the only village in the civil parish of Sutton with Howgrave. The population of the parish was estimated at 70 in 2014. The 2011 census population fi ...

. Despite its small size Howgrave has a complicated geography and history. Today Howgrave is divided between two civil parishes, Howgrave itself and Sutton with Howgrave, which, despite its name, includes only part of Howgrave. Until the 19th century both parishes were

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in the ancient parish of Kirklington in the North Riding of Yorkshire, but small parts of Howgrave were

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s of two other townships and parishes. A farm and a house were detached parts of the township of Nunwick cum Howgrave in the parish of

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, and another house was a detached part of the township of Holme cum Howgrave in the parish of Pickhill. The toponym is derived from the Old English ''hol grāf'', meaning "grove in the hollow". Howgrave was mentioned in the

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(as ''Hograve''), when different

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s were held by three different owners, the

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, the

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and the

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. It was considered a separate manor of Kirklington in the 16th century, but by 1640 it was recorded that there were no inhabitants in the township. Howgrave became a separate civil parish in 1866. The detached parts of Nunwick cum Howgrave, a total of , became detached parts of the new civil parish of Nunwick cum Howgrave. In the late 19th century of the detached parts of Nunwick cum Howgrave were transferred to the civil parish of Howgrave, and of Nunwick cum Howgrave were transferred to the civil parish of Sutton Howgrave.See parish areas in 1891 and 1901 i
Vision of Britain: Sutton Howgrave census reports
/ref> In 1974 Howgrave was transferred to Hambleton district in the new county of North Yorkshire. Since 1978 it has shared a grouped parish council, Kirklington with Sutton Howgrave, with the parishes of Kirklington-cum-Upsland and Sutton with Howgrave.

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{{commons category-inline Civil parishes in North Yorkshire Deserted medieval villages in North Yorkshire Hambleton District