A History of the County of York: East Riding

Volume X: Part 1: Howdenshire: The Townships
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-904356-50-9
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 211 mm x 307 mm, Gewicht: 1565 g

Reihe: Victoria County History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Crouch, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Asselby
Balkholme and the Lintons
Barmby-on-the-Marsh
Belby and Thorpe
Bellasize with Newland, Greenoak and Bennetland
Blacktoft
Cotness
Eastrington
Gilberdyke
Kilpin
Knedlington
Laxton
Metham
Portington with Caville
Saltmarshe
Sandholme with Owsthorpe and Hive
Scalby
Skelton
Yokefleet

Über Autor(innen)

Crouch, David
David Crouch is a fellow of the British Academy and author of a number of editions of medieval documents, most recently The Acts and Letters of the Marshal Family (2015) for the Camden Society. He has written extensively on medieval politics and society, and was also editor of Volume 10 (Howden and Howdenshire) of the Victoria History of Yorkshire East Riding.