Hovingham

[3] There is evidence of Roman activity around the village which sat on the Malton to Aldburgh road in those times.

During the construction of Hovingham Hall gardens, a Roman bath, tesselated pavement and other artefacts were uncovered.

It is also part of the Hovingham & Sheriff Hutton electoral division of North Yorkshire Council.

Marrs Beck flows northwards through the village to eventually join the River Rye near Butterwick and Brawby.

[13] There is a village shop[14] as well as a bakery and tea room,[15] a hotel,[16] a public house[17] and other local businesses.

[20] The majority of the present church building dates back to 1860, when it was rebuilt at the expense of Marcus Worsley.

[25] A unique feature of the Grade I listed building is that it is entered through a covered Riding School, once used for training horses.

[27] He persuaded the Worsley family to make their eighteenth-century riding school at Hovingham Hall available for a rural Yorkshire music festival that included leading professional musicians - including Joseph Joachim - supplementing the choirs and orchestras with local amateurs to make the cost of putting on ambitious works affordable.

[28] The repertoire was ambitious, including works (alongside the classics) by contemporary British composers - Elgar, Alan Gray, Parry, Somervell, Stanford and William Sterndale Bennett, and choral works by women composers such as Laura Wilson Barker (also known as Mrs Tom Taylor) and Alexandra Thomson.

Hovingham, All Saints' Church