HOWSHAM, a township in Scrayingham parish, E. R. Yorkshire; on the river Derwent, adjacent to the York and Malton railway, 6½ miles SSW of New Malton. Acres, 2, 056. Real property, £2, 900. Pop., 188. Houses, 33. The property belonged to Kirkham priory; was given, at the dissolution, to the Eires; and passed to the Bamburghs and the Cholmleys. Howsham Hall was built, by Thomas Bambnrgh, out of the materials of the old priory; is now the seat of the Cholmleys; and is a quadrangular edifice in the Tudor style. A stone bridge is here over the Derwent. A.church was built at Howsham in 1860, at a cost of nearly £3, 000, by Mrs. Cholmley, as a memorial of her husband, the late Col. Cholmley; is in the geometrical, middle pointed style; and consists of nave and chancel, with porch and tower.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))