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  2. Yorkshire Day - Wikipedia

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    Yorkshire Day is a yearly celebration on 1 August to promote the historic county of Yorkshire, England. [ 1] It was celebrated by the Yorkshire Ridings Society in 1975, initially in Beverley, as "a protest movement against the local government re-organisation of 1974 ". On 1 August the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 was passed, during the British ...

  3. Yorkshire - Wikipedia

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    Yorkshire. /  54°N 1°W  / 54; -1. 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 .

  4. York - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Stockeld Park - Wikipedia

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    Stockeld Park. Coordinates: 53.9365°N 1.4348°W. Stockeld Park. Stockeld Park is a Grade-I listed country house and estate situated between the towns of Wetherby and Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, which is now the home of Peter (a great grandchild of Robert John Foster) and and Susie Grant. [ 1] The estate spans some 2,000 acres and ...

  6. List of family seats of English nobility - Wikipedia

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    This is an incomplete index of the current and historical principal family seats of English royal, titled and landed gentry families. Some of these seats are no longer occupied by the families with which they are associated, and some are ruinous – e.g. Lowther Castle.

  7. Yorkshire Dales National Park - Wikipedia

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    The Yorkshire Dales National Park is a 2,178 km 2 (841 sq mi) national park in England which covers most of the Yorkshire Dales, the Howgill Fells, and the Orton Fells. The Nidderdale area of the Yorkshire Dales is not within the national park, and has instead been designated a national landscape. Most of the park is within North Yorkshire ...

  8. History of Yorkshire - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. 2024 Harehills riot - Wikipedia

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    The incident started on Luxor Street; some half a mile north of where the violence peaked. At 5 pm on 18 July 2024, West Yorkshire police responded to a residential street disturbance in the Gipton and Harehills ward sparked by a dispute over four children from a residential family, being taken into care by social services.

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