| Description | Includes an introductory chapter on Howdenshire, its parishes and townships, then individual chapters on Asselby, Balkholme and the Lintons, Barmby-on-the-Marsh, Belby and Thorpe, Bellasize with Newland, Greenoak and Bennetland, Blacktoft, Cotness, Eastrington, Gilberdyke, Kilpin, Knedlington, Laxton, Metham, Portington and Caville, Saltmarshe, Sandholme with Owsthorpe and Hive, Scalby, Skelton and Yokefleet.
The chapters cover the topics of settlement, landcape, landownership, manors and other estates, economic history, social history, religious history, local government and politics, and buildings.
Includes list of illustrations: frontispiece of Colonel Philip Saltmarshe 1853-1941, Asselby Main Street looking east c.1900, the former Wesleyan Methodist Reading Room and Sunday School on Blacksmith Lane in Asselby, West Linton and East Linton from mid 19th-century sales particulars showing medieval sites, the Medieval Trandyke or 'Great Goit' constructed c.1160 x 1170 now Balkholme Drain looking northeast at Balkholme Park, Derwent Ferry and Sloop Inn at Barmby c.1890, the Old National School at Barmby, St Helen's Church at Barmby, Little Belby House c.1865, Blacktoft Jetty in winter 1947, Survey of West Blacktoft 1656, The Old Manor House at Blacktoft, Holy Trinity Church at Blacktoft, Cotness Hall and Garth, Eastrington Manor House, Prospectus of Eastrington Free School 1844, Eastrington Old Vicarage with Rev W P Hains 1909-36, St Michael Eastrington interior looking eastward, the former mill on Gilberdyke Green, the Primitive Methodist Chapel at Gilberdyke, Kilpin village on OS 6-inch map sheet 238, Knedlington Old Hall, Knedlington Manor, Laxton Front Street looking west c.1945, Remains of chancel of medieval St John's Chapel at Laxton, Old Laxton Chapel before demolition in 1876, nothern arm of the moat of medieval Metham Hall, Metham Hall in the early 20th century, undated sketch of Caville Old Hall, Portington Manor Farm (Old Hall) and Village from Bell and Burton Survey 1754, aerial view showing the late 18th-century horse mill at Portington Manor Farm, undated sketch of Saltmarshe Old Hall, Colonel Saltmarshe's reconstruction of post-enclosure Saltmarshe farms, SS Aire aground on Saltmarshe foreshore 1958, commercial display at Sandholme Brickyard c.1890, sketch of c.1892 of the Eight and Forty House, Sand Hall Estate 1772, Sand Hall House, Skelton Enclosure Plan 1815, west elevation of Skelton School House, Yokefleet Hall, Yokefleet Mill c.1901
List of maps and plans include Howdenshire townships before 1777, Howdenshire ecclesiastical parishes in 1895, Asselby before enclosure 1800, Balkholme at the enclosure of Bishopsoil 1777, Barmby Open Fields and Barmby Marsh at enclosure 1853, Belby and Thorpe before Bishopsoil enclosure, Constituent Lordships of Bellasize Constablery 1700, Blacktoft Township 1800, Cotness Township around 1700, Eastrington Village in 1855, Eastrington field system around 1700, Gilberdyke Township at the enclosure of Bishopsoil, Kilpin Township around 1700, Knedlington before enclosure 1800, Laxton before enclosure in 1700, Metham in the later Middle Ages, Lordships within the constablery and township of Portington and Caville 1759, Saltmarshe before Enclosure 1800, The townships of Sandholme, Ousthorpe and Hive, Scalby township in 1770, Skelton township and Sand Hall Estate c.1750, Yokefleet before enclosure.
List of tables include census totals for the constablery of Gilberdyke, and census total tables for the townships of Asselby, Balkholme, Barmby, Belby and Thorpe, Bellasize and Greenoak, Blacktoft, Cotness, Eastrington, Kilpin, Knedlington, Laxton, Metham, Portington and Caville, Saltmarshe, Scalby, Skelton, Yokefleet |