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6 unusual facts about West Riding of Yorkshire


George A. Brandreth

George Adlington Brandreth (1828 Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England - November 15, 1897 Sing Sing, Westchester County, New York) was an American lawyer, manufacturer and politician from New York

GNR Class L1

In 1905 and 1906, thirty more engines were built for working goods trains in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

John Bailey Langhorne

He died aged 60 on May 17, 1877 at Outwood Hall, near Wakefield where he was described as being the District Registrar of the Probate Division of the High Court of Justice for the West Riding of Yorkshire.

Nick Banks

Nick Banks (born Nicholas David Banks, 28 July 1965, Rotherham, West Riding of Yorkshire) is the English drummer in the British band, Pulp.

Sheila Sherwood

Sheila Sherwood (born Sheila Hilary Parkin, 22 October 1945 in Parson Cross, Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England) is a former international Long jumper whose career highlights included a silver medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico, and a gold medal at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh.

Thomas Edmund Harvey

Harvey stood down from Parliament at the 1918 general election but tried to re-enter the House of Commons in 1922 having in 1921 been selected as Liberal candidate for Dewsbury in the West Riding of Yorkshire.


Albert Rawson

Albert Noble Rawson (October 1900 – 1949) was an English professional footballer born in West Melton, then in the West Riding of Yorkshire, who played in the Football League for Sheffield United, Birmingham and Barnsley.

Ardsley, New York

He had named Ardsley Park after the English birthplace of his immigrant ancestor, Zechariah Field (East Ardsley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England), who immigrated to the U.S. in 1629.

Arthur Maud

Born and raised in Airedale, the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, Maud studied singing at an early age and was chorister and

Bentley, South Yorkshire

Historically within the West Riding of Yorkshire, the village was once owned by Edmund Hastings of Plumtree, Nottinghamshire, who had inherited it from his wife Copley's Sprotborough family.

Bernard Radford

Born in West Melton, West Riding of Yorkshire, Radford began his career in local league football with Wath Athletic, Wombwell and Darfield, before signing as a professional with Football League Third Division North side Nelson in December 1927.

Bramwell Fletcher

Bramwell Fletcher (20 February 1904, Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England - 22 June 1988, Westmoreland, New Hampshire, United States) was a British stage, film and television actor.

Dean Andrews

Born in 1963 in Rotherham, West Riding of Yorkshire, Andrews went to Sitwell Junior School on Grange Road and Oakwood Comprehensive School on Moorgate Road.

Don Pottery

Potteries in the West Riding of Yorkshire had been increasing in number throughout the 18th century but English experimentation with porcelain had been concentrated in the south until this point, although a number of potteries in the vicinity of the Don Pottery began making porcelain shortly afterwards, including the world-famous Rockingham Pottery.

Duggie Brown

Duggie Brown (born Barry Dudley 7 August 1940 in Rotherham, West Riding of Yorkshire) is an English comedian and actor.

Jayne Irving

Jayne Irving (born 30 August 1956, Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire) is a British TV presenter best known for appearing on the Breakfast Television show Good Morning Britain.

Les Kellett

He was born in Laisterdyke, Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, the son of Bill Kellett, a renowned Bradford engineer, and Sarah Kellett.

Lord of the Fells

A small part lies in North Yorkshire, and much of the area was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire.

Margaret Wintringham

Margaret Longbottom was born in Keighley, West Riding of Yorkshire, and educated at Bolton Road School, Silsden where her father was the head teacher, and then Keighley Girls' Grammar School.

Norman Crowther Hunt, Baron Crowther-Hunt

On 9 July 1973, he was awarded a life peerage as Baron Crowther-Hunt, of Eccleshill in the West Riding of the County of York.

Quarter session

In some counties there were multiple Quarter Sessions, quite apart from the urban areas: for example, Yorkshire had its North Riding, West Riding, and East Riding; whilst Northamptonshire's Soke of Peterborough was administered separately.

Ramsden baronets

The fifth Baronet sat as Liberal Member of Parliament for Taunton, Hythe, the West Riding of Yorkshire and Monmouth and served as Under-Secretary of State for War from 1857 to 1858.

Red Riding

(Yorkshire, Britain's largest county, is broken into three administrative areas known as the RidingsNorth, East, and West.

Robert B. Sanderson

He was born in Slaidburn, West Riding of Yorkshire, England in 1825, and moved to the United States at the age of 23, arriving in New York City but moving on to Buffalo, New York, where he went into the slaughtering business for a couple of years.

Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi

Baroness Warsi was the second of five daughters born in Dewsbury, West Riding of Yorkshire, in 1971, to Pakistani immigrants from Bewal, Gujar Khan.

Scouthead

Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Scouthead stands on the old Wool Road between Lancashire and Yorkshire and contains several hostelries which were once important staging posts along the road.


see also

Hepton

Hepton Rural District, former rural district in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England

John Ramsden

Sir John William Ramsden, 5th Baronet (1831–1914), MP for Taunton, Hythe, the West Riding of Yorkshire and Monmouth, Under-Secretary of State for War from 1857–1858