Howdenshire
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Howdenshire was a wapentake and a liberty of England, lying around the town of Howden in the East Riding of Yorkshire.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> It came to operate as an exclave of County Durham, much like Allertonshire, but under the dean of Durham rather than the bishop.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> This peculiarity was abolished in 1846, but the district is still in use for certain administrative purposes.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:NOMIS2011</ref>