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40 unusual facts about Yorkshire


1928–29 Huddersfield Town F.C. season

The only good points of the season came from 3 of the 14 league wins, 6-1 victories over Yorkshire rivals Leeds United and Sheffield United and a 7-1 win over Pennine rivals Burnley.

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.

Abbot of Melrose

The second abbey was founded in 1136 on the patronage of David I (Dabíd mac Maíl Choluim), King of Scots, by Cistercian monks from Rievaulx Abbey, Yorkshire.

Alice in Wonderland syndrome

Alice in Wonderland Syndrome is sometimes called Todd’s syndrome, in reference to an influential description of the condition by John Todd (1914-1987) in 1955, a British psychiatrist who worked in Yorkshire.

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.

City of Manningham

The origin of Manningham Road's name is unconfirmed, but it would most likely be from the region of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, as the name Doncaster is also from 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.

Fishcake

In Yorkshire, England, The “Yorkshire fishcake” is a variation traditionally served in many fish and chip shops in South Yorkshire, parts of West Yorkshire and Humberside.

Gill Isles

Originally from Castleford, Yorkshire, Gill graduated from the BA Media Production course at Bournemouth University and began working at BBC Radio Leeds as a Broadcast Assistant.

Gilling Abbey

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

Godrevy

The earliest British domestic dog remains are from Starr Carr, Yorkshire dated to 9,538 (± 350) BP.

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

Ken Bell

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

Lawrence Batley

Lawrence Batley (1911 – 27 August 2002) was an entrepreneur and philanthropist who was born in the town of Huddersfield, in the English county of Yorkshire.

London Midland Region of British Railways

In return the London Midland gained the lines of the former Great Central Railway that lay outside Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.

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.

Maria Branwell

John Fennell, a former schoolmaster and Methodist class leader in Penzance and Wellington, Shropshire, was appointed Headmaster of the newly opened Woodhouse Grove School at Rawdon, for the sons of Methodist ministers in 1812.

Maria and Patrick's first home was Clough House in Hightown.

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.

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 Humberside

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.

Robert Beverley, Jr.

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

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

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

Simon Birckbek

In 1616 he was admitted to the reading of the sentences, and the year after was made vicar of the church of Gilling in Yorkshire, and also of the chapel of Forcet, near Richmond in the same county.

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.

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 Georgia Satellites

Yet, while the band felt they weren't making any progress on their musical path and had disbanded, their English manager, Kevin Jennings, took the demo to a small Yorkshire record label, Making Waves, who liked the material and released the demo as the Keep the Faith EP in 1985.

Unitrans 6773–6774

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

Wakefield Council election, 2008

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

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.

In April 2010, Centrebus Holdings obtained another service under the Huddersfield Bus Company division, taking over routes 435/436 from Arriva Yorkshire.


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.

Bartholomew Binns

Before becoming hangman, Binns was employed as foreman platelayer at Dewsbury by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, but after he got the post he no longer worked anywhere.

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.

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 Gayle

Gayle retired from the Yorkshire Ballet Seminars in 2005, handing over the directorship to Marguerite Porter, a former senior principal ballerina and guest artist with the Royal Ballet.

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

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.

GCR Class 9K

The South Yorkshire engines gradually moved to Gorton locomotive shed, from where they were used on Manchester suburban services, and destinations as far as Hayfield and Macclesfield, later joined by the 9Ls, until they were both replaced by DMUs after post-1955 dieselisation.

Gerard de Malynes

Among them was an attempt to work lead mines in Yorkshire and silver mines in County Durham in 1606, when at his own charge he brought workmen from Germany.

Get Lost!

Using characters inspired by Nick and Nora Charles, the detectives in the film The Thin Man (1934) and its sequels, Plater sought to juxtapose the conventions of the hardboiled thriller, as expounded by the likes of Raymond Chandler and Dashiel Hammett, with the mundanity of life in Yorkshire.

Grove House, Harrogate

Built in 1745-54 as World's End Inn, and the first house in Yorkshire to have gas lighting and heating, today it is a convalescence and old aged persons rest home, owned and operated by the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes (RAOB).

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.

Hensall

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

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.

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).

Jim Herriot

Herriot is probably best-known today for giving his name to the writer James Herriot, a Yorkshire vet whose real name was Alf Wight.

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

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.

Leo Chamberlain

He retired as Master in 2007 and was succeeded by Felix Stephens and became parish priest of St John the Evangelist Catholic Church, Easingwold, Yorkshire.

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).

Mike Rawding

A County level amateur player in his youth, Rawding turned out for Ancaster FC and RAF Hemswell in Lincolnshire, then Haltemprice AFC and Ainthorpe Old Boys in Yorkshire.

North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service

The ceremonial county of North Yorkshire also includes the boroughs of Stockton-on-Tees (south of the river), Middlesbrough and Redcar and Cleveland however these are covered by the Cleveland Fire Brigade.

Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt!

Locations used for outdoor filming of the series were in Skelmanthorpe, West Yorkshire and Elvington, North Yorkshire, while indoor filming was done at Yorkshire Television Studios, "Kirkstall Road, Leeds" themselves.

Peter Kippax

The Yorkshire team, about to begin their domination of the County Championship during the 1960s were well served with spinners such as Ray Illingworth and Don Wilson, and had little room for Kippax's leg spinners.

Red Riding

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

Robert Wodehouse

However, during his long career he had been well rewarded with a number of church benefices and in 1328 being appointed Archdeacon of Richmond, Yorkshire.

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

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.

Sheriff's March

At an inquisition at Tynemouth in 1278, it was duly declared that the King of Scotland, the Archbishop of York, the Prior of Tynemouth, the Bishop of Durham and Gilbert de Umfraville, Earl of Angus should arrange to meet with the justices prior to their entry into Newcastle, provided that they came through the county of Yorkshire first.

Sir Edward Wortley Montagu

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

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.

Stanghow

How or Howe, deriving from the Old Norse word haugr meaning a hill, is a common element in Yorkshire place name.

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).

Tim Easterby

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

Tony Hannan

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

Walter of Guisborough

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

Whorlton

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

Willerby

Willerby, North Yorkshire, a small village and civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire

William Bosomworth

Bosomworth was born in Carlton-Husthwaite, Thirsk, and made his Yorkshire debut on 17 June 1872, against Surrey at Bramall Lane, Sheffield, then played twice against Middlesex at North Marine Road, Scarborough in 1874, and at Prince's Road Ground in Chelsea, in 1875.

William Crawford Williamson

His father, John Williamson, after beginning life as a gardener, became a well-known local naturalist, who, in conjunction with William Bean, first explored the rich fossiliferous beds of the Yorkshire coast.

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.

Willys baronets

John Walpole Willis and his descendants (some of whom became Willis-Bund, e.g. John William Willis-Bund) descended from this family through his grandfather Joseph Willis of Wakefield, Yorkshire .

Yorkshire Evening Post

Despite its title that implies the paper is Yorkshire wide it is a Leeds-based paper, still widely circulated in Bradford, Harrogate, Huddersfield and Wakefield as well.

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.

Yorkshire Radio

Alongside Leeds United commentaries, Yorkshire Radio also carried coverage of Super League, Leeds Carnegie RUFC and Yorkshire County Cricket Club.