HOWSHAM is a township and village in the parish of Scrayingham and in Malton union and county court district, 8 miles south-by-west from Malton, 4 south from Kirkham and 3 south-east from Barton Hill station on the North Eastern railway. The village is approached by a stone bridge of four arches crossing the Derwent. St. John’s chapel of ease, erected by Mrs. Cholmley, widow of Col. Cholmley, in memory of her husband and children, is a building of stone, designed by the late I. E, Street esq. and consists of chancel, nave, west porch and a western tower containing 4 bells: the windows are stained, and there are 120 sittings. The tithe, which belongs to the rector, amounts to £167. Howsham Hall, the property of the trustees of the late Sir C. W. Strickland, 8th bart. (d. 1909), and the residence of the Hon. Tatton Lane Fox Willoughby, is a quadrangular mansion in the Jacobean style, built about 1612, and is surrounded with pleasure gardens, tastefully laid out, on the east bank of the river Derwent, which winds around the house, and here runs through a beautiful valley enriched with varied and delightful scenery; over the porch, which is supported by columns of the Corinthian order, are the arms and quarterings of Sir William Barburgh, who built the house, and the upper storey is finished with a parapet of singular but beautiful design. Howsham was part of the estate belonging to the priory of Kirkham, which at the Reformation was granted to the Eure family, and afterwards became the property of Thomas Bamburgh esq. the father of Sir William Bamburgh, who made use of the materials of the monastery in building this house. The trustees of the late Sir Charles W. Strickland bart. who are lords of the manor, and Mrs. Tatham Gwyn, of Langton Hall, are the chief landowners. The area is 2,132 acres of land and 19 of water; rateable value, £1,965; the population in 1911 was 160.

Public Elementary School, Howsham, erected in 1852, for 40 children; average attendance, 20.