Howdenshire

For the 1885–1950 parliamentary constituency, see Howdenshire (UK Parliament constituency).

Wapentakes of the East Riding of Yorkshire. Howdenshire is marked 5.

Howdenshire was a wapentake and a liberty of England, lying around the town of Howden in the East Riding of Yorkshire.[1][2]

In the Anglo-Saxon period, the district was under the control of Peterborough's monastery, but it was confiscated by Edward the Confessor, and then given to the Bishop of Durham by William I of England.[3] It came to operate as an exclave of County Durham, much like Allertonshire, but under the dean of Durham rather than the bishop.[4] This peculiarity was abolished in 1846, but the district is still in use for certain administrative purposes.[5][6]

  1. ^ "Howdenshire Wapentake :: Survey of English Place-Names". epns.nottingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  2. ^ "Administrative unit Howdenshire Liberty/Wap Ancient District". visionofbritain.org.uk. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  3. ^ Sheahan, James Joseph (1857). History and topography of the City of York, the East Riding of Yorkshire, and a portion of the West Riding; embracing a general review of the early history of Great Britain, and a general history and description of the county of York. Beverley: John Green. p. 595. OCLC 5824605.
  4. ^ "Genuki: HOWDEN, Yorkshire (East Riding)". www.genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  5. ^ "Howdenshire | Humberside Police". www.humberside.police.uk. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  6. ^ UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Howdenshire Ward (as of 2011) (E05001700)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 17 June 2022.