It is located near Pickhill, Sinderby and Ainderby Quernhow, on the west bank of the River Swale.

Holme was historically a township in the ancient parish of Pickhill with Roxby in the North Riding of Yorkshire.

At the time of the Domesday Book in 1086 it belonged to the Bishop of Durham as part of his manor of Hutton Conyers and Howgrave.

[2] The township formed a detached part of the wapentake of Allertonshire, and retained a detached part at Howgrave, 3 miles (5 km) west of the village, apparently only a single farm, into the 19th century.

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