Place:Howden Rural, East Riding of Yorkshire, England

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Howden Rural District was a rural district in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England from 1894 to 1974. It is located west of Hull County Borough and north from the River Humber.

It was formed under the Local Government Act 1894 as a successor to the Howden Rural Sanitary District. In 1935, by a County Review Order made under the Local Government Act 1929, it lost a few parishes to the newly created Derwent Rural District and parts to Beverley Rural District. At the same time it gained a small part from the abolition of Riccall Rural District.

The rural district survived until 1974 when it was abolished to become part of the Boothferry district of the short-lived Humberside. Since 1996 it has formed part of the unitary authority of the revived East Riding of Yorkshire.

Civil Parishes

• Asselby
• Aughton (near Bubwith) (abolished 1935 to create Ellerton)
• Balkholme (abolished 1935 to enlarge Kilpin with a small portion going to Eastrington)
• Barmby on the Marsh (part to Derwent Rural District in 1935)
• Belby (abolished 1935 to enlarge Kilpin)
• Bellasize (abolished 1935 to enlarge Blacktoft)
• Bishopsoil (abolished 1935 to create Gilberdyke)
• Blacktoft
• Brackenholme with Woodhall (to Derwent Rural District in 1935)
• Breighton-cum-Gunby (abolished 1935 to enlarge Bubwith)
• Broomfleet with Faxfleet
• Bubwith
• Cotness (abolished 1935 to enlarge Laxton)
• Eastrington
• Ellerton
• Ellerton Priory (abolished 1935 to create Ellerton)
• Faxfleet (abolished 1935 to enlarge Blacktoft)
• Foggathorpe
• Gilberdike (changed name to Gilberdyke in 1935)
• Gribthorpe (abolished 1935 to enlarge Foggathorpe)
• Harlthorpe (abolished 1935 to enlarge Foggathorpe)
• Hemingbrough (to Derwent Rural District in 1935)
• Holme-on-Spalding-Moor
• Hotham (part to Beverley Rural in 1935)
• Howden
• Kilpin
• Knedlington (abolished 1935 to enlarge Asselby)
• Laxton
• Laytham (abolished 1935 to enlarge Foggathorpe)
• Menthorpe cum Bowthorpe (to Derwent Rural District in 1935)
• Metham (abolished 1935 to enlarge Laxton)
• Newport (near Howden) (established 1935 from what was previously Wallingfen and part of Scalby)
• North Cave with Everthorpe and Drewton (part to Beverley Rural in 1935; area remaining became simply North Cave)
• Portington and Cavil (abolished 1935 to enlarge Eastrington)
• Saltmarshe (abolished 1935 to enlarge Laxton)
• Scalby (near Howden) (abolished 1935 to enlarge Blacktoft, Gilberdyke and Newport)
• Skelton (near Howden) (abolished 1935 to enlarge Kilpin)
• Thorpe (near Howden) (abolished 1935 to enlarge Eastrington)
• Wallingfen (abolished 1935 to create Newport)
• Willitoft (abolished 1935 to enlarge Bubwith)
• Wressell (changed name to Wressle in 1935)
• Yokefleet (abolished 1935 to enlarge Blacktoft)

Research Tips

• Howdenshire History provides histories of towns and villages in the area provided by a local family historian. The stories of some families who emigrated to Ontario, Canada, are included.
• A Vision of Britain through Time on Howden Rural District. This section provides statistics on population and industry, as well as a listing of the civil parishes and the alterations to the municipal organization.
• A Vision of Britain through Time provides links to three maps of the East Riding, produced by the United Kingdom Ordnance Survey, illustrating the boundaries between the civil parishes and the rural districts at various dates. These maps all expand to a scale that will illustrate small villages and large farms or estates.

• Ordnance Survey 1888. The "Sanitary Districts (which preceded the rural districts).
• Ordnance Survey 1900 The rural districts, not long after their introduction.
• Ordnance Survey 1944. The rural districts after the revisions of 1935.