What is "howden"

Howden is a small market town and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies north of the M62, on the A614 road about south-east of York and north of Goole.

William the Conqueror gave the town to the Bishops of Durham in 1080. The wapentake of Howdenshire was named after the town.

Howden was a constituency in Yorkshire which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 1955 general election, made up largely of the constituency of Beverley (losing some territory in the south to Haltemprice, and taking some in the east from Bridlington).

The Howden constituency was abolished for the 1983 general election.

Howden can refer to:

• Howden, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
  • RNAS Howden, airship station, England
• Howden-le-Wear, County Durham, England
• Howden, Tasmania, Australia
• Howden, Livingston, an area of Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland
  • Howden House (West Lothian)
• Howden, Manitoba, a settlement in Canada
• Howden Edge, a peak in the Peak District National Park, England
• Howden Reservoir, England

• Baron Howden, an Irish and British Peerage title
• James Howden (1832–1913), Scottish engineer
• James H. Howden (1860–1938), Canadian politician
• Jim Howden (b. 1934), Australian rower
• John Power Howden (1879–1959), Canadian MP
• Jordan Howden, English rugby league footballer
• Peter Howden (1911–2003), New Zealand cricketer
• Quinton Howden (b. 1992), Canadian ice hockey player
• Robert Howden (1917–2004), South African cricketer
• Roger of Howden or Hoveden ( fl. 1174-1201), a 12th-century English chronicler
• Ron Howden (b. 1967), British Nordic skier

• Howden (company), a manufacturer of heavy-duty air and gas handling equipment
• Howden Insurance Brokers Limited, A specialist professional indemnity and directors' and officers' broker in London, UK