A visit to Yorkshire and the Humber (encompassing North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, East Riding, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire) is to discover stone walls and villages, caves, fells, babbling becks and sheep in two national parks – the North Yorkshire Moors and the Yorkshire Dales – ruined abbeys, seaside resorts, cliffs, castles and cathedrals and a heritage shaped by being at the heart of Danish territory. Its cities include Leeds, now a bustling financial centre and retail mecca with a proud Victorian past, and York, famous for its medieval minster and one of Britain’s tourist magnets. Visit Ripon, with its cathedral and old workhouse, Whitby for fish and chips, Dracula and Captain Cook, or Haworth, home of the Brontes.
He sits on his bench in his overcoat, cloth cap pulled slightly down, gazing out to sea. His walking stick is loosely held in his left hand, his right arm draped casually over the back of the bench. It looks like a favourite spot along Scarborough’s North Bay. This is an astonishing, giant, sculpture in …
Including the counties of North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, East Riding, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire. Yorkshire is often referred to as ‘God’s own county’. It is (by British standards) huge and the whole region straddles the north of England, from the east coast to only about ½ an hour’s drive from the …
