a town in the east riding of Yorkshire, 180 miles from London, stands on the north side of the Ouse, has a market on Saturdays, and four fairs in the year. Here was formerly a collegiate church of five prebendaries; adjacent to which the bishops of Durham, who possess many estates here with a temporal jurisdiction, have a palace. One of them built a very tall steeple to the church here, whither the inhabitants might retire in case of inundations; to which it is very liable from the great freshes that come down the Ouse sometimes at ebb. This part of the county is from hence called Howdenhire, and is wa- tered by a conflux of several large rivers that fall in- to the Humber. At Howdendike is a ferry over the Ouse.