Natural Beauty, Wildlife and Cultural Heritage Fells that rise to over 700 metres at High Seat, Great Shunner Fell, Wild Boar Fell and the Yorkshire ‘Three Peaks’, including the highest peaks in …

For the vast majority of settlements in Yorkshire (and, therefore, for most Norse place-names of significance), Domesday Book is the point at which they first enter the historical record.

About this map: Successive reoganisations of boundaries have brought counties for Local Government, the post and for the ceremonial purposes of the Lieutenancies - to name a few.

The reader will doubtless have noticed that in this historic review of Yorkshire dialect poetry it has always been the life of rural Yorkshire which is depicted, and that the great bulk of the poetry has …

Yorkshire and The Humber covers 15,408 square kilometres and is the fifth largest region in England. Its population of 5.2 million in 2007 makes it the third least populous region in England.

It’s hard to envision the Yorkshire Terrier as a blue-collar dog, but she was once in fact a working breed! Yorkies were first bred for use as ratters in mine shafts and clothing mills in Northern England.