Askham Richard is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of City of York in the north of England, 6.5 miles (10.5 km) south-west of York, close to Copmanthorpe, Bilbrough and Askham Bryan.

When Edwin's lands were confiscated by William the Conqueror, the village was granted to Roger de Mowbray who then passed the Manor to his friend, William de Tykhill, a former Warden of Foss Bridge.

It is a part of the UK Parliamentary Constituency of York Outer.

The nearby Askham Bryan College of Agriculture and Horticulture provides some local employment.

It became Askham Bryan College of Agriculture and Horticulture 19 years later.

[13] There is record of a church here from 1086[7][14] but most of the existing building dates from 1887, a simple Victorian design with no tower (it has a bellcote).

The rebuilding however retained some fabric of the earlier church, notably the porch doorway (much restored), with two orders of colonettes and zig-zag pattern across the roll moulding.

At nearby St Nicholas Askham Bryan the door has similar motifs (leaves in the teeth of the zigzags) and may well have been made by the same hands.