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 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 Howdenshire, and is watered by a conflux of several large rivers that fall into the Humber. At Howdendike is a ferry over the Ouse. Population 1812, in 1811.