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39 unusual facts about Yorkshire


1996–97 Barnsley F.C. season

In Barnsley's final home game of the season, a Yorkshire derby against Bradford City, the team knew a win would be enough to secure promotion to the top tier of English football for the first time in the club's history.

Ashton Canal

In fact it was another ten years before the former connected to Yorkshire and the east coast.

Bingley Grammar School

Bingley Grammar School (BGS) is a comprehensive community school for both boys and girls from the ages of 11–18 and is located on the outskirts of Bingley, West Yorkshire, England.

Bloody Buttocks

Bloody Buttocks was a successful stallion for Mr. Crofts at Barforth in Yorkshire.

Dierama pulcherrimum

Dierama pulcherrimum, characterized by drooping flowers of silvery-gray pink, was introduced to British gardeners in 1866 by the celebrated Yorkshire botanist James Backhouse; it is today the most commonly-seen dierama in cool-temperate gardens.

Eastern Region of British Railways

In a major national boundary change in 1958 the former Great Central network except those lines in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire transferred to the London Midland Region; in return the Eastern gained the former LMS lines in Lincolnshire and the present-day South Yorkshire.

Edward Osborne

Pictoral representations of Osborne's feat are preserved at Clothworker's Hall and at Hornby Castle, Yorkshire, the seat of the Duke of Leeds.

European beewolf

It has undergone an expansion in range, with the wasp now locally common in a steadily increasing number of sites as far north as Yorkshire (2002).

Francis Fletcher

Born in Allerston, Yorkshire, England, he immigrated with his parents, William and Mary Fletcher and four brothers, to Nassagaweya Township, Ontario, Canada in 1825.

Gilling Abbey

The abbey's location has traditionally held to have been in or near Gilling West, Yorkshire.

An alternative location of Gilling East, Yorkshire has been proposed by historians Richard Morris and Ian Wood.

Huddersfield Broad Canal

Although connection to the River Colne at Huddersfield was authorised by the Act, the upper terminus was a basin at Apsley, where Ramsden built wharves and warehouses.

The Huddersfield Narrow Canal provided a heavily-locked Western connection to wool-weaving towns of the upper Colne valley (Golcar, Linthwaite, Slaithwaite, and Marsden) and across the Pennines to Saddleworth, Stalybridge and Manchester via Standedge Tunnel.

John Alan Robinson

Robinson was born in Yorkshire, England in 1930 and left for the United States in 1952 with a classics degree from Cambridge University.

Ken Bell

He was the oldest of five children born to carpenter Charles Bell (1881–c. 1958) and Edith Bell, both from Yorkshire, England.

London Midland Region of British Railways

LMR lines in South Wales and south-west of Birmingham were transferred to the Western; lines in Lincolnshire and the present-day South Yorkshire went to the Eastern Region and in the present-day West and North Yorkshire to the North Eastern Region.

Long Drax swing bridge

The Long Drax swing bridge (also known as the Hull and Barnsley railway Ouse swing bridge) was a swing bridge on the River Ouse near Barmby on the Marsh and Drax, built in the 1880s for the Hull and Barnsley Railway (HBR).

Mischief Night

Also the eve has been known in Yorkshire as "Mischievous Night", "Miggy Night", "Tick-Tack Night", "Corn Night", "Trick Night" and "Micky Night" but is celebrated on November 4 on the eve of Bonfire Night.

North Humberside

Coincidentally, Humberside was abolished for local government purposes in the same year, with the area north of the Humber becoming two unitary authority areas: East Riding of Yorkshire and Kingston-upon-Hull.

All of the post towns included in the North Humberside had formerly been part of the Yorkshire postal county.

Oakwell

Oakwell is a multi-purpose sports development in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England used primarily by Barnsley Football Club for playing their home fixtures, and those of their reserves.

Pontefract cake

Pontefract cakes (also known as Pomfret cakes and Pomfrey cakes) are a type of small, roughly circular black sweet measuring approximately 2 cm in diameter and 4 mm thick, made of liquorice, originally manufactured in the Yorkshire town of Pontefract, England.

Ribston Pippin

This apple was grown in 1708 from one of three apple pips (seeds) sent from Normandy to Sir Henry Goodricke of Ribston Hall at Knaresborough, Yorkshire, and the original trunk did not die until 1835.

Sand Hutton Light Railway

The Light Railway Order for the railway allowed for a half-mile (800m) extension to Scrayingham, but this would have involved a large and expensive bridge over the River Derwent so this was not built.

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.

Silverwood Colliery

These installations were to be connected to a boat staithe on the River Don by a railway.

Sir Thomas Robinson, 1st Baronet

He was eldest son and heir of William Robinson (bapt. Rokeby, Yorkshire, 23 September 1675, d. 24 February 1720), who married, in 1699, Anne, daughter and heiress of Robert Walters of Cundall in Yorkshire; she died on 26 July 1730, aged 53, and was buried in the centre of the south aisle of Merton church, Surrey, where a marble monument was placed to her memory.

St Mary's Abbey, York

In 1318 the abbot received royal permission to raise the height of the wall and crenelate it; a stretch of this wall still runs along Bootham and Marygate to the River Ouse.

Tanglewood Guitars

Tanglewood Guitars was founded in London in 1988 and later moved to Biggin Hill, Kent and opened additional warehouse space Wetherby in Yorkshire.

The Northern Lass

(Constance hails from Durham and speaks with a Yorkshire accent throughout the play – making her a northern lass. Hers is not the only dialect material in Brome's text: the minor comic character Sir Salomon Nonsense is from Cornwall and speaks with a Cornish accent.)

The Sparagus Garden

Tom and his servant Coulter are from "Zumerzetshire," and inject into the play the kind of dialect humour typical of Brome's drama (Yorkshire dialect in The Northern Lass, Lancashire dialect in The Late Lancashire Witches).

Unitrans 6773–6774

Originally, they were part of a fleet of 55 identical buses built in 1968 and 1969 that operated in Yorkshire.

Wakefield and District Football Association League

The Wakefield and District Football Association League is a football competition based in Yorkshire, England.

Wakefield Council election, 2008

Wakefield council joined with other councils from Yorkshire to run a television advertising campaign in an attempt to increase turnout.

The 2008 Wakefield Council election took place on 1 May 2008 to elect members of City of Wakefield Metropolitan Council in West Yorkshire, England.

Yorkshire Tiger

With the purchase of both Stagecoach and K-Line, Centrebus Holdings became the second largest bus operator in Huddersfield after First West Yorkshire.

In January 2010 Centrebus Holdings took over some contracted services previously run by First West Yorkshire in the Calderdale area, including Greetland, Halifax, Ripponden, Sowerby Bridge and Stainland.

At around the same time Centrebus Holdings purchased Stagecoach Huddersfield it also concluded a deal to buy K-Line.

Arriva Yorkshire already operated services in the town, so purchasing Stagecoach's operations would enlarge their presence.


1905 English cricket season

Lancashire went unbeaten until July, their fifteenth game, when Surrey overcame them at Aigburth, but Yorkshire were behind on the table with three losses before their match with Yorkshire at Bramall Lane.

A. W. Lawrence

He resigned these posts in 1957 after Ghana became independent and soon after settled at Pateley Bridge in Yorkshire, later moving to Bouthwaite.

Aberford Dykes

The Aberford Dykes are a series of archaeological monuments located around the valley of the Cock Beck, where it runs just north of the village of Aberford on the border between North and West Yorkshire, England.

Bamford

Bamford has four public houses, the Derwent Hotel (closed), the Anglers Rest, the Ladybower Inn and the Yorkshire Bridge Inn, the latter once home to former Blue Peter presenter Peter Purves.

C. E. Beeby

Beeby was born in Meanwood, Leeds, Yorkshire, and emigrated with his family to New Zealand in 1906.

Charles Duncombe, 3rd Earl of Feversham

He was also a Lieutenant-Colonel in the 13th/18th Royal Hussars and an Honorary Colonel in the Queen's Own Yorkshire Yeomanry and fought in the Second World War, where he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1945.

City of Wakefield

The district has a strong heritage of cricket with former Yorkshire and England captain Geoffrey Boycott born in Fitzwilliam and current Yorkshire and England cricketer Tim Bresnan from Pontefract.

Colin Sell

In 2013 he appeared with Barry Cryer in Richmond, Yorkshire, as part of the Swaledale Festival, performing jazz and blues and songs of his own composition.

Crossing the Ditch

He took 63 days 7 hours to row his Yorkshire Dory row-boat from Hokianga, New Zealand to Marcus Beach on the Sunshine Coast of Australia.

David Herron

:For the rugby league footballer of the 1970s, '80s and '90s for Great Britain, Yorkshire, Leeds, Bradford Northern, and Batley, see David "Dave" Heron

Far right in the United Kingdom

They have never achieved representation in the House of Commons, although they have had a number of local councillors in some inner-city areas of east London, and towns in Yorkshire and Lancashire, such as Burnley and Keighley.

Finningley

The 2,741 metre long runway, currently the second longest in the north of England, was sufficiently large to take even Concorde, and in the period after the closure of the RAF airfield there were several campaigns to turn Finningley into a commercial airport for the unserved South Yorkshire region (as well as Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire).

Fred Wheldon

Born in Langley Green (then in Worcestershire), Wheldon made his debut in Worcestershire's maiden first-class game, against Yorkshire in May 1899.

Graham Balcombe

During the Second World War, Balcombe was stationed in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, where he continued to develop his diving equipment, which was put to use at local sites such as Alum Pot, Keld Head and Goyden Pot.

Helen of Four Gates

The film was adapted from a popular novel of the same name by Ethel Carnie Holdsworth and was shot on location on the Pennine moors around Heptonstall and Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, which Carnie Holdsworth had used as the setting for her novel.

Helicopter Heroes

They have flown more than 2,000 missions in the Yorkshire Air Ambulance's two MD900 Explorer helicopters.

Huddersfield Broad Canal

The Huddersfield Broad Canal (also known by its original name, Sir John Ramsden's Canal) is a wide-locked navigable canal in Yorkshire in northern England.

I travelled among unknown men

Similarly, no insight can be gained from determining the exact geographical location of the 'springs of Dove'; in his youth, Wordsworth had visited springs of that name in Derbyshire, Patterdale and Yorkshire.

Illingworth St Mary's Cricket Club

Over the years many famous players have played for and at Illingworth; Tom Emmett (England), Alex Lees (Yorkshire), Gary Fellows (Yorkshire), Stuart Law (Essex, Queensland, Lancashire & Australia) and Robin Uthappa (India).

Inga Brooksby

Inga Brooksby (born October 29, 1988) is an English actress from Barnsley, Yorkshire.

Joseph Lancaster Ball

Born to a Methodist family in Maltby in Yorkshire, Ball was articled to the architect William Wilmer Pocock in London in 1877, and moved to Birmingham in 1880 to set up in private practice after winning a competition to design the Handsworth Wesleyan Theological College, now the Hamstead campus of Birmingham City University.

Joshua Bayes

Being dedicated from his birth to the nonconformist ministry, he was placed under the tuition of Richard Frankland, of Attercliffe in Yorkshire, on 15 Nov. 1686.

Judges Lodgings, York

He was married twice: by his first wife Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Nettleton of Earls Heath, Yorkshire, he had a son, Clifton Wintringham (1720–1794) who himself had a distinguished medical career, becoming joint military physician to the forces in 1756, Physician general to the forces in 1786 and Physician to George III in 1792.

K.I.D.

Bastow, who is also known as Geoff Bastow (born 1949 in Yorkshire, England, died 2007 in Munich), was a Munich-based English songwriter and music producer.

Kathryn Leng

In April 1999, Leng played for Yorkshire Bank first team in the Bradford Cricket League, the first woman to play in that league, and became the first woman to play inter UCCE cricket in 2001.

Kelk

Kelk, East Riding of Yorkshire, a civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England

Lochmaben

Robert de Brus Lord of Skelton in the Cleveland area of Yorkshire, was a notable figure at the court of King Henry I of England, where he became intimate with Prince David of Scotland, that monarch's brother-in-law.

Martin De La See

Peter Hildyard, of Winestead, Yorkshire (son of Robert Hildyard and Elizabeth Hastings. Elizabeth was the granddaughter of Thomas de Morley, 5th Baron Morley and great-granddaughter of Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, through her mother Ann).

Nick Pishos

In the Yorkshire Cricket Board's successful chase, he took the wicket of John Proud to finish with figures of 1/38 from nine overs.

No Face Records

So far the label has concentrated on bands in the Yorkshire region and has committed itself to promoting and supporting quality metal music.

North Country Beagle

Chiefly bred in Yorkshire, it was common in the north of England, but below the River Trent the similar Southern Hound was more abundant.

Nottingham Conference Centre

The Centre’s three Victorian character rooms are situated in the Arkwright building, originally built between 1877 and 1881 by Lockwood and Mawson, the prominent Yorkshire architectural practice founded by Henry Francis Lockwood.

RAF Oxenhope Moor

RAF Oxenhope Moor was a British Second World War radio station, located on Cock Hill Moor near the village of Oxenhope in Yorkshire.

Richard Guildford

Next day he embarked at Rye along with John Whitby, prior of Gisburn in Yorkshire, on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

Roman Rigg

Roman Rig, a dyke running between Sheffield and Mexborough in South Yorkshire

Ronnie Hilton

Born Adrian Hill in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, Hilton left school at 14 and worked in an aircraft factory at the beginning of the Second World War, before being called up into the Highland Light Infantry.

Scunthorpe General Hospital

It was part of Yorkshire Regional Health Authority, based in Harrogate.

Sheffield Park

Sheffield Park Academy, a secondary school in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England

Sheffield Tigers RUFC

The arrival of former England and Halifax RLFC scrum half David Holmes spearheaded a new era and the club reached the final of the Tetley Bitter Vase at Twickenham in 2000, securing a 20-11 win over favourites Bank of England RUFC in the Final and despite finishing second in the League, a restructure meant that they remained in Yorkshire 2 as all 10 clubs below them were relegated!

Sheila Mercier

After education at the French Convent, Hull and Hunmanby Hall, East Riding of Yorkshire, she trained for the stage at the Stratford-upon-Avon College of Drama.

Sir Edward Wortley Montagu

Sir Edward had bought and rebuilt Wortley Hall, near Barnsley in South Yorkshire, which also passed to his daughter.

Sir John Bright, 1st Baronet

Sir John Bright, 1st Baronet (14 October 1619 – 13 October 1688), was an English parliamentarian, of Carbrook and Badsworth, Yorkshire.

Smedley's Hydro

While on honeymoon in Switzerland John Smedley had become seriously ill and returned to England to recuperate at the hydropathic establishment at Ben Rhydding, in Yorkshire, and later to take the waters at Cheltenham.

Tim Easterby

Easterby took over the Habton Grange stables in North Yorkshire from his father, Peter Easterby, in February 1996.

Transport in Preston

The River Ribble runs through Preston from North Yorkshire and the estuary enters into the Irish Sea near Lytham, and used to transport ships from the cotton mills.

Walter of Guisborough

was a canon regular of the Augustinian Gisborough Priory, Yorkshire and English chronicler of the fourteenth century.

Walter Sugg

His younger brother Frank played first-class cricket for Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Lancashire and England.

Yorkshire Imperial Band

The band was formed in the 1930s as the Yorkshire Copper Works Band based at the Yorkshire Copper Works in Stourton, Leeds, and was renamed when Yorkshire Imperial Metals was created in 1958, owned by Yorkshire Copper Works and ICI Metals Division.