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Yorkshire. Yorkshire (/ ˈjɔːrkʃər, - ʃɪər / YORK-shər, -sheer) is an area of Northern England which was historically a county. [1] Despite no longer being used for administration, Yorkshire retains a strong regional identity. [2] The county was named after its original county town, the city of York.
Yorkshire and the Humber. Yorkshire and the Humber is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of ITL for statistical purposes. [a] The population in 2021 was 5,480,774 [3] with its largest settlements being Leeds, Sheffield, Bradford, Hull, and York.
53°58′N 1°05′W / 53.96°N 1.08°W / 53.96; -1.08. York is a cathedral city in North Yorkshire, England, with Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss. It is the county town of Yorkshire. The city has many historic buildings and other structures, such as a minster, castle, and city walls.
The East Riding of Yorkshire, often abbreviated to the East Riding or East Yorkshire, is a ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It borders North Yorkshire to the north and west, South Yorkshire to the south-west, and Lincolnshire to the south across the Humber Estuary. The city of Kingston upon Hull is the ...
The conurbation of Bradford, Dewsbury, Halifax, Huddersfield, Leeds and Wakefield makes up the West Yorkshire Built-up Area, which is the fourth-largest in the United Kingdom and the largest within the historic county boundaries of Yorkshire. In Parliament, 13 out of 22 of West Yorkshire's MPs are Labour and 9 are Conservative. At local level ...
York. North Yorkshire is a ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber and North East regions of England. [note 1] It borders County Durham to the north, the North Sea to the east, the East Riding of Yorkshire to the south-east, South Yorkshire to the south, West Yorkshire to the south-west, and Cumbria and Lancashire to the west.
Yorkshire is a historic county of England, centred on the county town of York. The region was first occupied after the retreat of the ice age around 8000 BC. During the first millennium AD it was inhabited by celtic Britons and occupied by Romans, Angles and Vikings. The name comes from "Eborakon" (c. 150) an old Brythonic name which probably ...
The City of York, officially simply "York", [6] is a unitary authority area with city status in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. [7]The district's main settlement is York, and its coverage extends to the town of Haxby and the villages of Earswick, Upper Poppleton, Nether Poppleton, Copmanthorpe, Bishopthorpe, Dunnington, Stockton on the Forest, Rufforth, Askham Bryan and ...