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Yorkshire

Yorkshire \York"shire\, n. A county in the north of England.

Yorkshire grit, a kind of stone used for polishing marble, and copperplates for engravers.
--Simmonds.

Yorkshire pudding, a batter pudding baked under meat.

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Yorkshire, NY -- U.S. Census Designated Place in New York
Population (2000): 1403
Housing Units (2000): 690
Land area (2000): 1.847015 sq. miles (4.783746 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.007576 sq. miles (0.019621 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.854591 sq. miles (4.803367 sq. km)
FIPS code: 84044
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 42.522493 N, 78.475295 W
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Yorkshire, OH -- U.S. village in Ohio
Population (2000): 110
Housing Units (2000): 41
Land area (2000): 0.281970 sq. miles (0.730300 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.281970 sq. miles (0.730300 sq. km)
FIPS code: 87164
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 40.324855 N, 84.495957 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 45388
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Yorkshire, VA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Virginia
Population (2000): 6732
Housing Units (2000): 2332
Land area (2000): 2.374471 sq. miles (6.149852 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.374471 sq. miles (6.149852 sq. km)
FIPS code: 88176
Located within: Virginia (VA), FIPS 51
Location: 38.787928 N, 77.453236 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Wikipedia
Yorkshire

Yorkshire ( or ; abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a historic county of Northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom. Due to its great size in comparison to other English counties, functions have been undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject to periodic reform. Throughout these changes, Yorkshire has continued to be recognised as a geographical territory and cultural region. The name is familiar and well understood across the United Kingdom and is in common use in the media and the military, and also features in the titles of current areas of civil administration such as North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and East Riding of Yorkshire.

Within the borders of the historic county of Yorkshire are areas which are widely considered to be among the greenest in England, due to the vast stretches of unspoilt countryside in the Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors and to the open aspect of some of the major cities. Yorkshire has sometimes been nicknamed "God's Own County" or "God's Own Country".

The emblem of Yorkshire is the White Rose of the English royal House of York, and the most commonly used flag representative of Yorkshire is the White Rose on a blue background, which after nearly fifty years of use, was recognised by the Flag Institute on 29 July 2008. Yorkshire Day, held on 1 August, is a celebration of the general culture of Yorkshire, ranging from its history to its own dialect.

Yorkshire is now divided between different official regions. Most of the county falls within Yorkshire and the Humber. The extreme northern part of the county falls within North East England. Small areas in the west of the historic county now form part of North West England, following boundary changes in 1974.

Yorkshire (disambiguation)

Yorkshire is a historic county in England. It may also refer to:

  • Yorkshire dialect
Yorkshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Yorkshire was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England from 1290, then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two Members of Parliament, traditionally known as Knights of the Shire, until 1826, when the county benefited from the disfranchisement of Grampound by taking an additional two members.

The constituency was split into its three historic ridings, for Parliamentary purposes, under the Reform Act 1832. Each riding returned two MPs. The county was then represented by the Yorkshire East Riding, Yorkshire North Riding and Yorkshire West Riding constituencies.

Usage examples of "yorkshire".

Ramsay Kent, relocated Yorkshire baronet, geologist, and adopted Absarokee married to his aunt, Hazard studied geology under the noted Swiss naturalist Agassiz, who had been invited to deliver a course of lectures at Harvard in 1847, subsequently had been offered a chair, and had stayed.

Loath as Banks was to leave Yorkshire, especially after so recently buying the cottage, he was fast coming to admit that his days there seemed numbered.

As very considerable numbers of the working classes in Lancashire and Yorkshire had been taught in Sunday-schools, and the Sabbath day was much regarded in that part of the country, the collection of such a vast concourse of persons from great distances, on a day so sacred, created prejudices against the chartist confederacies even in their own strongholds, which, irrespective of every other difficulty, ensured their defeat.

Sir Hugh, though he had passed a wretched night, was now somewhat better, and considerably cheared, by a visit from his old Yorkshire friend, Mr.

Systems may be changing, but cows and calves and Yorkshire farmers were just the same.

North Yorkshire, where he worked, down to a Royal Navy facility near Gosport, Hampshire.

Oleic acid a by-product of the candle industry, is extensively used under the name of cloth oil, there is also used oleine, or wool oil, obtained by the distillation of Yorkshire grease.

Opposite to him stood the gentle Quakeress, in her plain garment of grey Yorkshire frieze with its spotless deep collar and close-fitting cap of snowy lawn.

It reminds one of the old days when Yorkshire returned two members, and Rutlandshire two also.

Mollie was born in a grand house in Wharfedale, Yorkshire, delivered by the village midwife, so the story goes, with old Tom boiling up kettles of water and only an oil lamp to light the room.

He informed the company, in a broad Yorkshire dialect, that he did a bit in furniture, and at first starting these brokers buzzed about him like flies, and pestered him.

When we moved to Yorkshire, hoping to start anew, I put the alicorn away for good.

It was at Sheffield, in the county of Yorkshire, already famous in the annals of crime as the county of John Nevison and Eugene Aram, that Peace first saw the light.

Yorkshire family, the most eligible of bachelors, and one who had been born with a golden spoon in his mouth, the money to buy himself the world if he wanted.

I was telling her quietly in my rusty Spanish about the bluebells I used to look for in the Yorkshire woods.