The Yorkshire Ridings Society settled on August 1 ... produced at the behest of the government the first county maps of England and Wales. He was brought up in the hamlet of Dunnington, near ...

New road signs have been erected marking the boundaries of the three Yorkshire ... divided into three ridings – north, east and west – but these were wiped from the map in 1974.

In 2023 the council secured £15m of funding to tackle the effects of erosion and held similar events for local people. A year ...

South and North Yorkshire but the map work was carried out with a blunt pencil with little regard to history, long-held allegiances or people’s wishes. People who once lived in the East Riding ...

ON Easter Monday, a sign sprang up on the southern footing of Croft bridge welcoming people to the “Historic North Riding of Yorkshire”. It was placed on the poles where there used to be a ...

The declaration was first made at Micklegate Bar, where the West Riding of Yorkshire traditionally meets the city of York, before the readers moved on to Bootham Bar for the North Riding ...

New road signs have been erected marking the boundaries of the three Yorkshire Ridings – 50 years after they were abolished. England’s largest county was for centuries divided into three ...