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Howden Minster and Market Cross, Yorkshire

Howden

Howden is a small market town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, about three miles north of Goole and seventeen miles south-east of York.

William the Conqueror gave the town and a liberty around it to the Bishops of Durham in 1080, creating the wapentake of Howdenshire, which long remained in the control, ecclesiastical and secular, of the Bishops of Durham. (Read more)

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