Howdenshire

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title: Howdenshire
text: Howdenshire was a wapentake and a liberty of England, lying around the town of Howden in the East Riding of Yorkshire. 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. It came to operate as an exclave of County Durham, much like Allertonshire, but under the dean of Durham rather than the bishop. This peculiarity was abolished in 1846, but the d
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description: Former administrative division of Yorkshire, England
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howdenshire
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date modified: 2022-06-17T20:50:58Z
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