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The reign of the Viking kings came to an end with the last king Eric Bloodaxe dying in battle in 954 after the invasion and conquest by the Kingdom of England from the south. Jórvík was the last of the independent kingdoms to be taken to form part of the Kingdom of England and thus the local monarchal title became defunct. [269]
On 12 September the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, gave a speech in which he proposed 10 or 12 regional parliaments for the United Kingdom. Within England, he suggested that London, Lancashire, Yorkshire, and the Midlands would make natural regions.
Yorkshire and the Humber is one of the nine official regions of England at the first level of ITL for statistical purposes. [a] It is one of the three regions covering Northern England, alongside the North West England and North East England regions, and covers the historic and cultural Yorkshire area.
The kingdoms were eventually united into the Kingdom of England in a process beginning with Egbert of Wessex in 829 and completed by King Edred in 954. The Norse kingdom of Jorvik, also known as Scandinavian Yorkshire was not annexed into England until 1066 and the Royal Harrying of the North.
In 2015, Northern England received around a quarter of all domestic tourism within the UK, with 28.7 million visitors in 2015, but only 8% of international tourists to the United Kingdom visit the region.
The current NUTS level 1 codes start with "C" (following "UK") rather than "1" because the new list reflected the revised regions of England and local government changes throughout the UK; "1" to "B" had been used for the 11 regions in the previous coding system.
ITL 1 statistical regions of the United Kingdom by Human Development Index as of 2022. Rank ITL 1 Region HDI (2022) [1] Very high human development 1: Greater London: 0.984 2: South East England: 0.954 – United Kingdom (average) 0.940: 3: South West England: 0.936 4 Scotland: 0.933 5: East of England: 0.928 6: North West England: 0.927 7 ...
The North East region contributed 3% of the UK's GVA. The region's headline GVA was £41.0 billion in 2010. The latest subregional data (2009) show that Tyneside generated 37% of the region's GVA at £14.6 billion. In 2009 manufacturing industries generated 14% of the region's total GVA, which is the largest industry contribution for the region.