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unusual facts about Yorkshire, England



1729 in literature

John Oldmixon - The History of England, During the Reigns of the Royal House of Stuart

1884–85 in English football

Note – Some sources credit England's third goal as a Joe Lofthouse goal, but match reports clearly state an Eames own goal.

1937–38 Detroit Red Wings season

In Europe, the teams played a nine-game series in England and France.

67th Special Operations Squadron

It was activated on 14 November 1952 at RAF Sculthorpe, England, and discontinued, and inactivated, on 18 March 1960 at Prestwick, Scotland.

A History of Everyday Things in England

A History of Everyday Things in England is a series of four history books for children written by Marjorie Quennell and her husband Charles Henry Bourne Quennell (aka C. H. B.) between 1918 and 1934.

Andrew Ducrow

Ducrow is buried on the Main (or Centre) Avenue at Kensal Green Cemetery in London, England near the tomb of the Duke of Sussex, one of the most desirable burial plots of the time.

Anselm of Canterbury

Anselm occasionally visited England to see the abbey's property there, as well as to visit Lanfranc, who, in 1070, had been installed as Archbishop of Canterbury.

Anti Piracy Maritime Security Solutions

Anti Piracy Maritime Security Solutions (APMSS) of Poole, Dorset, England is a British company established in 2008.

Arthur Frederick Dicks

This new direction saw him working as a set and costume designer in England, USA and Africa, spending some time in Nairobi.

Aspall

Aspall, Suffolk, a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk, England

Cambridge Model European Council

The Cambridge Model European Council is an annual student-run conference based in the English city of Cambridge.

Centenary World Cup

1995 Rugby League World Cup, hosted by England and celebrating the 100th birthday of Rugby league.

Charles Sackville, 2nd Duke of Dorset

After a second grand tour to continental Europe in 1737 and 1738, he returned to England in January 1739 and staged an opera, Angelico e Medoro, with music by Giovanni Battista Pescetti from a libretto by Metastasio at Covent Garden.

Church of All Saints, Sutton Bingham

The Church of All Saints in Sutton Bingham in the civil parish of Closworth, Somerset, England dates from the 12th and 13th centuries and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.

Church of Pakistan

Its most internationally famous clergyman, Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, formerly diocesan bishop of Raiwind in West Punjab, was given sanctuary by Robert Runcie, the then-Archbishop of Canterbury when his life was imperilled; he then taught at Oxford and served as Bishop of Rochester, England.

Cornish Pump

Cornish engine, a type of steam engine developed in Cornwall, England, mainly for pumping water from a mine.

Dan Mara

He was named NJCAA New England Women's Basketball Coach of the Year nine times, Colonial States Athletic Conference (CSAC) Coach of the Year six times, NJCAA District Coach of the Year three times and Converse District One Coach of the Year in 1994.

David R. Ross

At the age of about 15, he became interested in the novels of Nigel Tranter, that inspired him to grow an interest in the history of Scotland, as he realised that the history curriculum in British schools was told from an England-centric perspective that ignored (or nearly so) the individual histories of the other countries forming the United Kingdom.

Flag of New England

On 8 June 1989 the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC) adopted a flag designed by Albert Ebinger of Ipswich, Massachusetts, as the official flag of the New England Governors’ Conference.

Gadfield Elm Chapel

The Gadfield Elm Chapel near the village of Pendock in Worcestershire, England, is the oldest extant chapel of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

Helene Raynsford

Raynsford was appointed to UK Anti-Doping's newly formed Athlete's Committee along with Paralympic swimmer Graham Edmunds, football player Clarke Carlisle and former England rugby union captain, Martin Corry.

Henry Willoughby, 8th Baron Middleton

Henry Willoughby, 8th Baron Middleton (28 August 1817 Nottingham – 20 December 1877 Birdsall House, Birdsall) was an English peer.

Herbert Westfaling

Westfaling was born in London, England, the son of Harbert Westphaling, whose family originated in Westphalia (Germany).

Hermann Behmel

He worked as a long term consultant for NATO in Newcastle, England, and Torino, Italy, and was head of Department at Universität Stuttgart, Institute for Geology and Paleontology.

Horningsea Park, New South Wales

He named his property Horningsea Park after his birthplace, the village of Horningsea in Cambridgeshire, England.

I've Never Met a Nice South African

He has met the Loch Ness Monster, had a close encounter ('of the 22nd kind, That's when an alien spaceship, Disappears up your behind!'), seen unicorns in Burma, met a working Yorkshire miner and had sunstroke in the Arctic, but despite all these exotic experiences, he has never met a nice South African.

Indian cricket team in England in 2011

In winning the series by more than two clear matches, England took India's place at the top of the ICC Test Championship, while India dropped to third place.

Jervis B. Webb Company

The company headquarters is in Farmington Hills, Michigan, with offices and manufacturing plants internationally including Carlisle, South Carolina; Harbor Springs, Michigan; Boyne City, Michigan; Hamilton, Ontario; Northampton, England; Ludwigshafen, Germany; Palaiseau, France; Barcelona, Spain; Shanghai, China and Bangalore, India.

John Palmer

John Horsley Palmer (1779–1858), English banker and Governor of the Bank of England

Leon Baptiste

On 10 October 2010 Baptiste won the 200 m gold medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, ensuring England's first sprint gold at the games for 12 years since Julian Golding in 1998.

Lirr

Leeds Inner Ring Road, a motorway and A-road circling Leeds, West Yorkshire, England

Lopwell

Lopwell is a site of natural beauty situated at the upper tidal mark on the River Tavy, 3 miles from north Plymouth and 7 miles from Tavistock, Devon, England.

Mark Sutcliffe

Mark Sutcliffe MBE (born 29 July 1979 in Peterborough, England) joined the British Army in 1997 aged 17, enlisting into the 2nd Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment The Poachers, initially joining C (Northamptonshire) Company.

Marsk

Marske-by-the-Sea, a village in Redcar and Cleveland in north-east England.

Mate Recordings

Until recently most releases on Mate Recordings were by Roger®, but the label's 2004 "England vs. Finland" compilation album Music is Better Volume One (Manchester vs Helsinki) features also such British and Finnish artists as Alcohell, A Maze, A.N.I.M.A.L., Boys of Scandinavia, Kompleksi, Nu Science and The Science Block.

Menthorpe Gate railway station

Menthorpe Gate railway station was a station on the Selby to Driffield Line in North Yorkshire, England serving the village of North Duffield and the hamlet of Menthorpe.

Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey

His idea was to build a model monastery for England, sharing his knowledge of the experience of the Roman traditions in an area previously more influenced by Celtic Christianity stemming from missionaries of Melrose and Iona.

Mynydd y Glyn

It is the mountain which was used in The Englishman who went up a Hill and came down a Mountain in which Hugh Grant and Ian McNeice star as English cartographers.

Oxenford Farm

Oxenford Farm was formerly an abbey farm, a dependency of Waverley Abbey in the civil parish of Milford, Surrey, England, with several listed buildings around a courtyard, including three by Augustus Pugin.

Plague, Poverty and Prayer: A Horrid History with Terry Deary

Plague, Poverty and Prayer is a Horrible Histories exhibition at the York Archaeological Trust's Barley Hall in York, England.

Poetry Records

He holds a masters degree from the New England Conservatory of Music (Boston), where he studied with great guitarist Maestro Eliot Fisk.

Preston baronets

The Preston Baronetcy, of Furness in the County of Lancaster, was created in the Baronetage of England on 1 April 1644 for George Preston.

Reginald Stourton

Sir Reginald Stourton of Stourton (born 1434) was an English knight.

River Blyth

River Blyth is the name of several rivers in England.

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, of Beauclerc

They had a large family, including John Scott, the eldest son who became the second Baronet of Beauclerc on the death of his father and Mason and William Martin Scott, England international rugby union players.

Square Kilometre Array

In April 2011, Jodrell Bank Observatory (of the University of Manchester) in Cheshire, England was announced as the location of the headquarters office for the project.

The Damnation of Theron Ware

The Damnation of Theron Ware (published in England as Illumination) is an 1896 novel by American author Harold Frederic.

Third English Civil War

At the end of May 1650 Cromwell turned over his command in Ireland to Henry Ireton and returned to England.

Thomas Glazier

Thomas Glazier of Oxford (fl. 1386-1427) was a master glazier active in England during the late 14th and early 15th century; he is one of the earliest identifiable stained glass artists, and is considered a leading proponent of the International Gothic style.

Yotaro Kobayashi

Yotaro Kobayashi, born April 1933 in England, is former chairman of the Fuji Xerox company, a joint venture between Fujifilm (75%) and Xerox (25%).


see also

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.

Albert Goodwin

Goodwin was born in Treeton, Yorkshire, England, becoming a coal miner for most of his working life.

Bettison

Bettison's Folly, tower in Hornsea, East Riding of Yorkshire, England

Bradford Airport

Leeds Bradford International Airport, serving Leeds and Bradford in West Yorkshire, England (IATA: LBA)

Bradford Town Hall

Bradford City Hall, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (previously named Bradford Town Hall)

Carbrook

Carbrook, South Yorkshire, a district of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England

Charles Wheater

Born in Hunmanby, Yorkshire, England, Wheater was a right-handed batsman, who scored 45 runs at 15.00, with a best score of 27 against the MCC.

Darfield

Darfield, South Yorkshire, a village in the borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England

Edmund Jowett

Jowett was born in Yorkshire, England, at Bradford, on 6 January 1858 to Joseph Jowett and Sarah, née Craven.

Ernest Hirst

Born in New House, Deighton, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, Hirst learnt his cricket with the Lascelles Hall Cricket Club and played there from 1873 to 1888.

Farnley

Farnley, Leeds, a district in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England which includes Old Farley and New Farnley

Farnley, North Yorkshire, a village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England, near Otley, West Yorkshire

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.

Geoffry Tattersall

Born in Ripon, Yorkshire, England, Tattersall was a right hand batsman, who scored 26 and a duck in a drawn match against Sussex at Headingley.

George Clementson

George Clementson was born in Yorkshire, England, to Joseph Clementson, a wheelwright, and Elizabeth (Peacock) Clementson; in 1849, the Clementson family emigrated from England to the United States, settling in Hazel Green, Wisconsin.

Henry Tinsley

Born in Welham Grange, Malton, Yorkshire, England, Tinsley was a right arm fast bowler, who took four first-class wickets at 14.25, with a best of 3 for 15 against Lancashire.

Hensall

Hensall, North Yorkshire, a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England

Hildoceras bifrons

It is particularly associated with the fossil beds in the Whitby Mudstone Formation, Yorkshire, England.

James Smurthwaite

Born in North Ormesby, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, England, Smurthwaite was a fast medium swing bowler, who could also bowl medium quick off breaks.

John Newsome Crossley

John Newsome Crossley, DPhil, MA (Oxon), (born 1937, Yorkshire, England) is a British-Australian mathematician and logician who writes in the field of logic in computer science, history of mathematics and medieval history.

Jonathan Joy

Born in Preston Bottoms, Knaresborough, Yorkshire, England, Joy scored 283 runs, with a best score of 74 against Kent in 1864, at an average of 14.50.

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.

Kelk

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

Lamplough Wallgate

Wallgate was born in Norton-on-Derwent, Malton, Yorkshire, England, and scored nine first-class runs, and took one wicket for seventeen with his round arm, right-handed, bowling.

Langstroth

Langstrothdale, a valley in the Yorkshire Dales in North Yorkshire, England

Laskay, Ontario

The settlement was named by Joseph Baldwin, and was named after his hometown Loskie in Yorkshire, England.

Louis Ryder

Born in Thirsk, Yorkshire, England, Ryder was a right arm fast bowler, who took four wickets at 37.75, with a best of 2 for 75.

Major Booth

Major William Booth (10 December 1886 in Lowtown, Pudsey, Yorkshire, England – 1 July 1916 near La Cigny, France) was a cricketer who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1908 and 1914, a season in which he was named one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year.

Marske

Marske Hall, a 17th-century mansion house in Marske-by-the-Sea, North Yorkshire, England.

New Towns Act 1946

Allerton Bywater, West Yorkshire, England (expansion of former mining village near Leeds)

Peter Garthwaite

Peter Fawcitt Garthwaite who was born 22 October 1909, Guisborough, North Yorkshire, England and died 13 May 2001, Hovingham, North Yorkshire, England, was a forester who worked in a wide range of settings - imperial and national, public and private.

Peter Smithers

Sir Peter Henry Berry Otway Smithers (9 December 1913 in Yorkshire, England – 8 June 2006 in Vico Morcote, Switzerland) was a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician.

Richard Bache

Richard Bache (1737–1811), born in Settle, Yorkshire, England, immigrated to Philadelphia, in the colony of Pennsylvania, where he was a businessman, a marine insurance underwriter, and later served as head of the American Post Office.

Robert Beverley, Jr.

Beverley was the second of three sons born to Major Robert Beverley of Yorkshire, England and his wife, Margaret Boyd.

Robert Shirley, 14th Earl Ferrers

He was educated at Ampleforth College, Ampleforth, Yorkshire, England, and then became a chartered accountant.

Robert Sidgwick

Born in Embsay, near Skipton, Yorkshire, England, Sidgwick was a right-handed batsman, who scored 72 runs at 4.80, with a best score of 17 against Kent.

Saddleworth, South Australia

Saddleworth was originally established as one of many settlements on the road to Burra, and was named after Saddleworth Lodge pastoral station, a local landholding which itself was named after a town of Saddleworth in Greater Manchester (formerly in Yorkshire), England.

Sheffield Park

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

Silverwood Colliery

Silverwood Colliery was a colliery situated between Thrybergh and Ravenfield in Yorkshire, England.

St Wilfrid's Church, Halton

St Wilfrid's Church, Halton, Leeds, a 20th-century church in West Yorkshire, England

Tony Hannan

Tony Hannan (born 11 June 1963 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England) is an author, journalist and publisher who specialises in British popular culture.

Unity Academy

Unity City Academy, a secondary school in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England

WEEL

Weel, a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England

Whorlton

Whorlton, North Yorkshire, a hamlet and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England

William Jackson of Masham

William Jackson (born 9 January 1815 in Masham, Yorkshire, England; died 15 April 1866 in Bradford, England) was an English organist and composer.

YRC

Yorkshire Ramblers' Club (YRC), a senior mountaineering and caving club based in Yorkshire, England