Howe is a small village and civil parish in the former Hambleton District of North Yorkshire, England.

It is situated near Ainderby Quernhow and the A61 and 5 miles (8 km) west of Thirsk.

[1] Howe, from the Old Norse word haugr, is a Middle English topographic name for a small hill or a man-made mound or barrow.

[2] Howe was historically a township in the ancient parish of Pickhill with Roxby in the North Riding of Yorkshire.

In the Middle Ages the manor belonged to St Leonard's Hospital, York.