KNEDLINGTON is a township and small village, in the parish of Howden and one mile west from Howden. The ferry at Booth, in this township, over the Ouse to Goole, 1 ½ miles south-east of Howden, affords direct communication with Doncaster. The tithe, amounting to £59, is impropriated. Knedlington Manor, the seat of Eric de Sioblade Sutherland Rudd esq. J.P. is a building in the Tudor style, pleasantly situated in a park of nearly 100 acres, and commanding a fine view of Howden church, and of the town and port of Goole. Eric de S. S. Rudd esq. J.P. is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is loamy; subsoil, clayey.

The chief crops are wheat, barley and potatoes. The area, which includes the hamlet of Booth, is 558 acres of land, 15 of tidal water and 4 of foreshore; rateable value, £1,148; the population in 1911 was 93.