Thorpe (Howden), East Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Thorpe, a township in Howden parish, E.R. Yorkshire, 1½ mile N by E of Howden railway station. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Howden. Acreage, 265; population, 61.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Yorkshire | |
Civil parish | Howden | |
Poor Law union | Howden | |
Riding | East | |
Wapentake | Howdenshire |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Thorpe (Howden) from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for the East Riding of Yorkshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Thorpe (Howden) are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following East Riding newspapers online: