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]
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