The settlement of Hovingham is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Maneshou in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Maneshou

The Meaning of the Name

The name Hovingham is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word hām, a homestead or village. The first element is most likely a personal name or an early descriptive term, now difficult to recover with certainty. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ‘a homestead’.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Hovingham.

Listed Buildings Near Hovingham

Historic England records 49 listed buildings within about a mile of Hovingham. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

Hovingham Hall - 0.2 km

Grade II*

Church of All Saints - 0.26 km

Grade II

Park House - 0.02 km
Gate Piers at West End of Park Street - 0.06 km
Bramcote - 0.06 km
Drinking Fountain and Curved Wall Immediately East of Gate Piers at West End of Park Street - 0.07 km
The Vicarage With Piers and Railings to Park Street (North) and Gate Piers and Wall to Church Street (West) - 0.08 km
The Cottage - 0.08 km
10, Park Street - 0.09 km
Holmside - 0.1 km
Clifford House - 0.11 km
4, Park Street - 0.11 km
2, Park Street - 0.12 km
The Village School and Schoolmaster’s House and Railings Around Property - 0.16 km
Worsley Arms Farmhouse and Cottage - 0.16 km
Lumley House - 0.16 km
Worsley Arms Hotel - 0.17 km
Coach House to Worsley Arms Hotel - 0.2 km
The Stone House - 0.2 km
Hall Green Cottage and Stables - 0.22 km
Tomb to Members of Stockton Family Approximately 7 Metres South of Church of All Saints - 0.24 km
Wall to East and North of Hovingham Hall - 0.25 km
Restaurant Myse and Home Cottage - 0.25 km
Hovingham War Memorial - 0.25 km

…and 25 more listed structures in the area.

Scheduled Monuments Near Hovingham

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 5 lie within roughly a mile of Hovingham:

Round barrow 560m north west of Wath Farm - 0.65 km
Round barrow 700m north of Moor House Farm - 1.26 km
Round barrow 500m NNW of Moor House Farm - 1.49 km
Round barrow 530m north of Wool Knoll - 1.49 km
Round barrow 550m NNW of Wool Knoll - 1.56 km

Hovingham Today

Today Hovingham lies within the administrative area of North Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 376 at the 2021 census. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Read more about modern Hovingham on Wikipedia .