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The East Riding of Yorkshire is a local government district with unitary authority status, and is a ceremonial county of England. It is named after the historic East Riding of Yorkshire which was one of three ridings alongside the North Riding and West Riding, which were constituent parts of Yorkshire ceremonial and administrative county until 1974.
The area was returned to Yorkshire in 1996 as part of the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire. most of the East Riding was transferred to Humberside. The area became the larger part of the new ceremonial county of the East Riding of Yorkshire in 1996. Goole and Goole Rural District was transferred from the West Riding to Humberside. The area ...
Winifred Holtby's 1936 novel South Riding and its adaptations were set in a fictional fourth riding. The title of the novel trilogy Red Riding by David Peace, set in Yorkshire, is a play on the word. The Yorkshire Ridings Society calls for wider recognition of the historic borders of Yorkshire.
Wapentakes of the East Riding of Yorkshire (6 P) Pages in category "History of the East Riding of Yorkshire" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total.
The East Riding of Yorkshire was a parliamentary constituency covering the East Riding of Yorkshire, omitting Beverley residents save a small minority of Beverley residents who also qualified on property grounds to vote in the county seat (mainly business-owning forty shilling freeholders).
The Pocklington Iron Age burial ground is a prehistoric cemetery discovered in 2014 on the outskirts of Pocklington in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.Excavations carried out on an ongoing basis since then, have uncovered more than 160 skeletons and more than 70 square barrows thought to date to the Middle Iron Age that are attributed to the Arras culture, an ancient British culture of ...
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 .
Asselby is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.It is located in the south-west of the county, north of the River Ouse.It is situated approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) west of the market town of Howden.