An authoritative and comprehensive account of an important area
centred around the town of Howden. This is the first part to be
published of a two-part volume on the East Riding liberty and
wapentake of Howdenshire. It deals with the nineteen civil parishes
and townships which made up the liberty outside the town of Howden
itself. Until 1836 Howdenshire was one of the bishop of Durham's
exempt franchises in Yorkshire, enclaves which survived the
Reformation and Civil War. Its special nature, which is mostly
ancient wetland reclaimed in the twelfth century, is explored via
in-depth sections on drainage and river defence, with a
reconstruction of the unique medieval and early modern scheme
developed to contain the River Ouse and empty the drainage dykes.
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