COWDON (GREAT-and-LITTLE), a parish partly
in the middle, but chiefly in the northern, division of
the wapentake of HOLDERNESS, East riding of the
county of YORK, containing . 146 inhabitants. Great
Cowdon is 14 miles, and Little Cowdon 12f, (N. B.)
from Kingston upon Hull. The living is a discharged
rectory, in the archdeaconry of the East riding, and
diocese, of York, rated in the king's books at £2.13.4.,
and in the patronage of the Crown. The church has
long been swallowed up by the sea, and the parish is
commonly considered a township partly in the parish
of Aldborough, but chiefly in the parish of Mappleton.