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The White Rose Cycle Route in Yorkshire, England, part of the National Cycle Network (NCN), was opened by Sustrans in 1998. It linked Middlesbrough with the City of Kingston upon Hull via the North York Moors, the Vale of York, the Yorkshire Wolds, a distance of 123 miles (198 km) [1] [2] and in some descriptions continued to Hornsea on the coast (131 miles (211 km)).
The Yorkist rose is used in the seal of the City of York, Pennsylvania, which is known as "White Rose City". The town's minor league baseball team, which played in different leagues for several decades, was called the York White Roses. The white rose appears on one of the hats for York's current minor league baseball team, the York Revolution.
York hosts a variety of open mics and underground venues such as the Sign of the Wagon [87] and The Depot. [88] Astro Lasso, an electronic indie pop band from York managed by Frankie Muniz, toured with We the Kings in 2017. [89] The York chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society, performing as the White Rose Chorus, was founded in 1945. [90]
WellSpan Park hosts the New Year's Revolution, the city's New Year's Eve celebration in which a large White Rose is dropped to count down to the New Year. The event's name alludes to a New Year's resolution and the Revolution baseball team. The former venue for the White Rose drop was the city square. [10]
Rosa × alba, the white rose of York, is a hybrid rose of unknown parentage [1] that has been cultivated in Europe since ancient times. [2] It may have originally been grown mainly for the sweet scent of the flowers, but is now also used as a winter-hardy garden shrub. [2] Cultivated forms have white or pink flowers, and most have many petals.
"Cary ran another sub-five minute mile, and she is the best distance runner York has ever seen, and the best we may ever see," coach Ted Hutch said. York's Cary Drake 3rd in 1-mile at New Englands ...
York is one of the six original teams of the New York–Pennsylvania League, joining for the inaugural season in 1923.The White Roses quickly became one of the powerhouse franchises in the League and won their first league championship on September 25, 1925, defeating the Williamsport Grays 5–3, in 11 innings in the fourth and final game of a best-of-five series.
Fulford is a historic village and civil parish on the outskirts of York, in the York district, in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. Fulford is located 2 miles (3 km) to the south of the city, on the east bank of the River Ouse. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 2,785. [1]