Place:Howsham, East Riding of Yorkshire, England

source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

source: Family History Library Catalog

Howsham was originally a township in the ancient parish of Scrayingham in the Buckrose Wapentake of the East Riding of Yorkshire. Howsham was made a civil parish in 1866 and in 1894 it became part of the Norton Rural District.

In 1974 rural districts were abolished and the border between the East Riding of Yorkshire and the North Riding of Yorkshire was realigned. The North Riding changed its name to North Yorkshire. Since 1974 Howsham has been in North Yorkshire, specifically within the Ryedale District.

Howsham is now larger than Scrayingham and the UK census of 2011 combined the two parishes and gives a total population of "Howsham (with Scrayingham)" of 279.

Research Tips

• GENUKI on Howsham.
• A Vision of Britain through Time on Howsham provides quite an extensive description.
• The FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of Scrayingham provides a list of useful resources.
• A Vision of Britain through Time provides links to three maps of the East Riding, produced by the United Kingdom Ordnance Survey, illustrating the boundaries between the civil parishes and the rural districts at various dates. These maps all expand to a scale that will illustrate small villages and large farms or estates.

• Ordnance Survey 1888. The "Sanitary Districts (which preceded the rural districts).
• Ordnance Survey 1900 The rural districts, not long after their introduction.
• Ordnance Survey 1944. The rural districts after the revisions of 1935.

• For a discussion of where to find Archive Offices in Yorkshire, see GENUKI.
• Yorkshire has a large number of family history and genealogical societies. A list of the societies will be found on the Yorkshire, England page.