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Yorkshire (/ˈjɔːrkʃər, -ʃɪər/ YORK-shər, -⁠sheer) is an area of Northern England which was historically a county. Despite no longer being used for administration, Yorkshire retains a strong regional identity. The county was named after its original county town, the city of York.

The south-west of Yorkshire is densely populated, and includes the cities of Leeds, Sheffield, Bradford, Doncaster and Wakefield. The north and east of the county are more sparsely populated, however the north-east includes the southern part of the Teesside conurbation, and the port city of Kingston upon Hull is located in the south-east. York is located near the centre of the county. Yorkshire has a coastline to the North Sea to the east. The North York Moors occupy the north-east of the county, and the centre contains the Vale of Mowbray in the north and the Vale of York in the south. The west contains part of the Pennines, which form the Yorkshire Dales in the north-west. (Full article...)

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Kingston upon Hull, almost invariably referred to as Hull, is a city and unitary authority area in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is located on the north bank of the Humber estuary, near the Yorkshire coast. Sited 25 miles (40 km) from the North Sea, on both sides of the River Hull at its junction with the Humber, the city has a resident population of (2022). Renamed Kings town upon Hull by King Edward I in 1299, Hull has served as market town, trading hub, fishing and whaling centre, and industrial metropolis. Hull was an early theatre of battle in the English Civil Wars, and was the backdrop to events leading to the abolition of the slave trade in Britain.

It was unique in the United Kingdom in having a municipally owned telephone system from 1902, sporting cream, not red, telephone boxes. After suffering heavy damage during the Second World War, Hull weathered a period of post-industrial decline, when the city gained unfavourable results on measures of social deprivation, education and policing.

However, the city has recently embarked on a programme of regeneration and renewal and a range of sporting and cultural activities is available, with attractions including the historic Old Town and Museum Quarter, Hull Marina and The Deep. (read more . . . )

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The North York Moors is a national park in North Yorkshire. The moors are one of the largest expanses of heather moorland in the United Kingdom. (read more . . . )

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Saint Edwin (alternately Eadwine or Æduini) (c. 586–12 October 632/633) was the King of Deira and Bernicia - which would later become known as Northumbria - from about 616 until his death. He converted to Christianity and in 627 was baptised in York; after he fell at the Battle of Hatfield Chase, he was venerated as a saint.

Edwin was the son of Ælle king of Deira. His sister Acha was married to Æthelfrith, king of neighbouring Bernicia. An otherwise unknown sibling fathered Hereric, who in turn fathered Abbess Hilda of Whitby and Hereswith, wife to king Anna of East Anglia's brother Æthelric. With the death of Æthelfrith, and of the powerful Æthelberht of Kent the same year, Raedwald and his client Edwin were well placed to dominate England, and indeed Raedwald did so until his death a decade later. Edwin annexed the minor British kingdom of Elmet following a campaign in either 616 or 626. Elmet had probably been subject to Mercia and then to Edwin. The much larger kingdom of Lindsey appears to have been taken over c. 625, after the death of king Raedwald. (read more . . . )

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The Churches Conservation Trust, which was initially known as the Redundant Churches Fund, is a charity whose purpose is to protect historic churches at risk, those that have been made redundant by the Church of England. The Trust was established by the Pastoral Measure of 1968. The legally defined object of the Trust is "the preservation, in the interests of the nation and the Church of England, of churches and parts of churches of historic and archaeological interest or architectural quality vested in the Fund ... together with their contents so vested".

The Trust cares for over 350 churches. The charity is financed partly by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Church Commissioners, but grants from those bodies were frozen in 2001, since when additional funding has come from other sources, including the general public. During the 2016-2017 period, the Trust's income was £9,184,283 and expenditures totaled £9,189,061; 92% of the latter was spent on front line projects. During that year it had 64 employees, and received the support of up to 2,000 volunteers. The charity is run by a board of trustees, who delegate the day-to-day management to a chief executive and his senior management team. (Full article...)

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... that Fountains Fell, (pictured), a mountain in the Yorkshire Dales, England, is named after Fountains Abbey whose monks grazed sheep there in the 13th century?
...that the Rotunda Museum houses one of the foremost collections of Jurassic geology on the Yorkshire Coast?
... that All Saints Church, Helmsley, contains two chapels dedicated to different saints?
...that an estimated 20 people died after eating peppermint humbugs that were accidentally made with arsenic in the 1858 Bradford sweets poisoning?

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The following are images from various Yorkshire-related articles on Wikipedia.

Image 1Depiction of Edwin of Northumbria from Sledmere (from History of Yorkshire)
Image 2The Brontë sisters (from Culture of Yorkshire)
Image 3A flat cap associated with the stereotypical Yorkshireman (from Culture of Yorkshire)
Image 4The main rivers of Yorkshire. (from History of Yorkshire)
Image 5Mr Pack dressed in traditional Yorkshire attire takes his horse, Danny, for a turn of the field in front of the crowd at Otley Show. (from Culture of Yorkshire)
Image 6Harold Wagstaff – Prince of the Centres. (from Culture of Yorkshire)
Image 7Fountains abbey from the west (from History of Yorkshire)
Image 8Long Sword dancers (from Culture of Yorkshire)
Image 9The Humble Petition of The Gentry and Commons of the County of York, presented to His Majestie at York, 22 April 1642 : and His Majesties message sent to the Parliament, 24 April 1642 : concerning Sir John Hothams Refusall to give His Majestie entrance into Hull. Printed at London, 1642 (from History of Yorkshire)
Image 10A prehistoric settlement on Harkerside Moor in Swaledale. (from History of Yorkshire)
Image 11Brazilian legend Pelé (left) in Sheffield in November 2017, marking the 150th anniversary of the world's oldest football club, Sheffield F.C. (from Culture of Yorkshire)
Image 12The Rudston Monolith, almost 26ft high, close to Rudston Parish Church of all Saints (from History of Yorkshire)
Image 13Roman Britain (from History of Yorkshire)
Image 14Richmond castle walls and towers seen from the Keep (from History of Yorkshire)
Image 15Thornborough Henge (from History of Yorkshire)
Image 16Helmsley Castle was destroyed at the end of the Civil War (from History of Yorkshire)
Image 17The natural sub-regions of Yorkshire (from History of Yorkshire)
Image 18Herbert Sutcliffe, batsman. (from Culture of Yorkshire)
Image 19Yorkshire puddings, served as part of a traditional Sunday roast. (from Culture of Yorkshire)
Image 20Water-powered, belt-driven machinery, Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet, Sheffield. (from History of Yorkshire)
Image 21Yorkshire is often described as "God's own county/country" due to its beautiful landscape and unspoiled countryside (from Culture of Yorkshire)
Image 22Roman wall and the west corner tower of the fort at York, with medieval additions (from History of Yorkshire)
Image 23A medieval representation of Saint Olaf (from History of Yorkshire)
Image 24Sean Bean's Yorkshire accent is highly recognised and is utilised on many of his castings including Game of Thrones Stark accent. (from Culture of Yorkshire)
Image 25The 19th-century interior of Marshall's flax mill, Holbeck, Leeds (from History of Yorkshire)
Image 26Jarvis Cocker, singer for Pulp (from Culture of Yorkshire)