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Boothferry - Definition and Overview

Boothferry is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire in England, just north of the River Humber.

It gave its name to a local government district and borough of the short-lived administrative county of Humberside from April 1, 1974 to April, 1996 - the distirict is now split between the East Riding of Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire.

The borough was a merger of the former borough of Goole, and Goole Rural District, Howden Rural District and Isle of Axholme Rural District.

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