Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Howden. You may be able to find further references to Howden in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
HOWDEN	a town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial
Howdenshire	wapentake	Bartholomew
HOWDENSHIRE	a wapentake	Imperial

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Howden.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Asselby	township	Bartholomew
ASSELBY	a township	Imperial
Balkholme	township	Bartholomew
BALKHOLME	a township	Imperial
Barmby on the Marsh	township	Bartholomew
BARMBY-ON-THE-MARSH	a township-chapelry	Imperial
Belby	township	Bartholomew
BELBY	a township	Imperial
Brindleys	hamlet	Bartholomew
Cotness	township	Bartholomew
COTNESS	a township	Imperial
Duncoats	hamlet	Bartholomew
Howden Dyke	village	Bartholomew
Kilpin	township	Bartholomew
KILPIN	a township	Imperial
Knedlington	township	Bartholomew
KNEDLINGTON	a township	Imperial
Laxton	township and village	Bartholomew
LAXTON	a village, a township, and a chapelry	Imperial
Linton, East and West	2 hamlets	Bartholomew
LINTON (EAST and WEST)	a hamlet	Imperial
Metham	township	Bartholomew
METHAM	a township	Imperial
SALTMARSH	a township	Imperial
Saltmarshe	township and railway station	Bartholomew
Skelton	township	Bartholomew
SKELTON	a township	Imperial
Thorpe	township	Bartholomew
THORPE	a township	Imperial
YORKFLEET	a township	Imperial

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Howden within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland	3
Gerald of Wales	Book I, Ch. 2: Hay and Brecheinia	1
William Camden	Yorkshire: East and North Ridings	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Thorpe	0	2
Kilpin	0	2
Belby	0	2
Cavil	0	1
Balkholme	0	2
Knedlington	0	2
Skelton	0	2
Hook	0	3
Boothferry	0	2
Portington	0	2
Saltmarshe	0	2
Laxton	0	2
Eastrington	0	2
Asselby	0	2
Newsholme	0	2
Goole	21	2
Wressell	1	2
Cotness	0	2
Brindleys	0	2
Metham	1	2