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What better way to celebrate Yorkshire day on 1st August than with a yomp up on Ilkley Moor (baht 'at?)
Late summer on a moorland means HEATHER, which is always delightful to see.
Plenty more images from this day, just waltz this way -> https://www.iancylkowski.com/posts/ilkley-moor-west-yorkshire-summer/ 👍
#landscape #nature #travel #summer #uk #britain #england #yorkshire #yorkshireday #ilkley #moor #photography #photo #photographie
Our Social Media Man spent Yorkshire Day oop ont' Ilkley Moor (baht 'at), up past the Cow and Calf to Ilkley Crags. Heather's proper out this week.
Bonus fact: the moor's part of Rombalds Moor, home to one of Europe's richest Bronze Age rock carving sites.
How'd you spend Yorkshire Day?
#outdoors #yorkshire #yorkshireday #summer #heather #ilkley #ilkleymoor #uk #britain #england #nature #landscape
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Happy #YorkshireDay. Here is my flat cap from the 2018 record of most people in flat caps which was achieved at Leeds Market
One for 'Yorkshire Day' – if you like vintage traction engines then this weekend sees the Whitby Traction Engine Rally underway in the historic Yorkshire coastal town of Whitby.
Must admit, I like how the organisers describe the location being "... only a 15-minute walk from the town centre and harbour", forgetting to mention the strenuous climb up the infamous 199 steps to the abbey!
I visited a couple of years ago and was genuinely amazed at the size of the event, where I spotted this traction engine from my own neck of the woods in Sunderland and Houghton-le-Spring.
#yorkshireday #northyorkshire #northyorkmoorsnationalpark #whitbyevents #tractionengine #august #summer #events #england #photography
2/2 Looking east inside Leeds Cathedral, Art Nouveau edging towards Art Deco in the early years of the 20th Century. #YorkshireDay
Leeds Cathedral, playing its unfortunate other role as a traffic island, for #YorkshireDay.
2/2 And a short walk away is Sheffield's Catholic Cathedral, also for #YorkshireDay and #SteepleSaturday.
2/2 The view looking west from under the central tower at Holy Trinity, Hull. There's as much again behind me!
#YorkshireDay
Holy Trinity, Hull for #YorkshireDay, recently rebadged as Hull Minster. It vies with St Nicholas, Great Yarmouth to the claim of the largest non-collegiate parish church in England. There's a grand tower for #SteepleSaturday just out of sight, and the bell tower of the neighbouring Trinity Market.
Holy Trinity, Hull for #YorkshireDay, recently rebadged as Hull Minster. It vies with St Nicholas, Great Yarmouth to the claim of the largest non-collegiate parish church in England. There's a grand tower for #SteepleSaturday just out of sight, and the bell tower of the neighbouring Trinity Market.
Yorkshire Day, held annually on August 1st, is a celebration of the culture, history, and heritage of England's largest historic county. It marks significant regional milestones, promotes local pride and dialect, and features civic gatherings hosted by a designated local town or city.
Happy Yorkshire Day. #yorkshireday
For #YorkshireDay - a tale of an Iron Age ring... or is it??
w/ Trix Randerson
I would wish a Happy Yorkshire Day to all those that celebrate. Noting caveats about whether people from Yorkshire can either be happy or celebrate.
Happy Yorkshire Day from the goth-tastic Whitby Abbey!
If you look really closely you might spot Dracula as the sun sets.... 🦇🌙
#Gothic #YorkshireDay
This suitably chaotic version also features one Yorkshireman, Leeds-born Vic Reeves, along with Alan Rickman(!), Suzy Eddie Izzard and Harry Enfield. #YorkshireDay
No-one in the original sketch was from Yorkshire. But when it was performed by Monty Python it did have one Yorkshireman: Sheffield’s own Michael Palin. #YorkshireDay
Happy Yorkshire Day!
The original version of the Four Yorkshiremen sketch from At Last The 1948 Show, with its writers: Marty Feldman, Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese and Graham Chapman.
‘Poor man’s golf’ game revived for Yorkshire Day https://www.rawchili.com/5061042/ #BozDavison #golf #KnurrAndSpell #SouthYorkshire #Thurgoland #YorkshireDay
To celebrate #YorkshireDay, here are a number of walks which cross Ilkley Moor.
Can’t get much ‘moor’ #Yorkshire than that!
See https://www.happyhiker.co.uk/MyWalks/WestYorkshire/Hiking%20Pages%20-%20Ilkley%20Moor%20Walks.htm
From every corner of the county to Headingley, today we celebrate the people, places and passion that make Yorkshire what it is.
Happy #YorkshireDay.
https://www.fogolf.com/1341787/poor-mans-golf-game-revived-for-yorkshire-day/ ‘Poor man’s golf’ game revived for Yorkshire Day #BozDavison #Golf #GolfNews #KnurrAndSpell #SouthYorkshire #Thurgoland #YorkshireDay
‘Poor man’s golf’ game revived for Yorkshire Day
An old miners’ game known by some as “poor man’s golf” has been revived to celebrate Yorkshire Day.…
#Golf #News #BozDavison #KnurrandSpell #SouthYorkshire #Thurgoland #YorkshireDay
https://www.europesays.com/golf/45091/
A right good celebration: Yorkshire Day at White Rose
White Rose Shopping Centre is marking Yorkshire Day, Saturday 1 August 2026, with free in-centre events to celebrate…
#Leeds #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #Britain #GreatBritain #market #WhiteRoseShoppingCentre #YorkshireDay
https://www.europesays.com/uk/1116146/
https://www.europesays.com/uk/1116146/ A right good celebration: Yorkshire Day at White Rose #Britain #England #GreatBritain #Leeds #market #UK #UnitedKingdom #WhiteRoseShoppingCentre #YorkshireDay
https://www.europesays.com/uk/?p=1107702 Yorkshire Celebration at Oakwell Hall is back and bigger than ever! #Britain #Children #England #Events #Festival #FoodAndDrink #Free #GreatBritain #Leeds #LiveMusic #OakwellHall #UK #UnitedKingdom #workshops #YorkshireDay
Yorkshire Badges - heading out in today's post https://www.koolbadges.co.uk/yorkshire-rose-button-badge-p-6200.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Kool-Badges #yorkshireday #yorkshirepride #yorkshirerose #badge #proud #pride #yorkshirebadges #UK #northern #buttonbadges #shopsmall #koolbadges
3/3 Weston Park Museum, Sheffield, the former Mappin Art Gallery, one final post for #YorkshireDay.
2/3 The Arts Tower, Sheffield University, by GMW Partners, 1965 for #YorkshireDay. It remained the tallest building in the city until 2006, when it was overtaken by St Paul's Tower.
Barker's Pool, Sheffield for #YorkshireDay. The City Hall on the left, the Town Hall in the distance. 1/3
3/3 Kirkgate Market, Leeds, the largest indoor market in Europe for #YorkshireDay.
2/3 The chapter house undercroft at Kirkstall Abbey, Leeds for #YorkshireDay.
2/3 The chapter house undercroft at Kirkstall Abbey, Leeds for #YorkshireDay.
Inside Leeds Corn Exchange for #YorkshireDay, by Cuthbert Broderick, 1863. Since closure, converted for independent shops. 1/3
Inside Leeds Corn Exchange for #YorkshireDay, by Cuthbert Broderick, 1863. Since closure, converted for independent shops. 1/3
2/3 Bradford City Hall, by local firm Lockwood & Mawson. Completed 1873 at a cost of £100,000, roughly £20 million in today's money. One of Sir John Betjeman's favourite buildings. #YorkshireDay
Yorkshire Day!
Ay up, it’s Yorkshire Day! (Also Lammas or Lughnasadh; also the Feast Day for a couple of dozen saints, none of whom I feel are worth mentioning.)
This is a repost from my research blog last year which—for Reasons—seemed like a good idea to post here today.
So, what is Yorkshire? Well, it’s a large chunk of the north of England, the heartland of what in the Late Iron Age would have been Brigante territory.
Selected late Iron Age tribal territories—the coastline looks weird because I’ve taken into account the fens and marshland that would have formed barriers and boundaries between polities and peoplesTo some it’s God’s Own Country. To others simply the most beautiful land on earth. To an ignorant few, an uncouth, untutored place where the accent is incomprehensible. It’s the biggest county in the UK—by a factor of… Well, when it was the historical county of three ridings, by a factor of a lot, and even now that it’s been divided into four ceremonial counties, North Yorkshire, on its own, is still the biggest in the UK. It encompasses moors, mountains, dales, cliffs, coasts, forests, lakes… Every landscape you can think of. So Yorkshire is big, and beautiful, and, well, belligerent.
It has always had its own identity. Lots of people born and bred there—like me—would think of themselves as Yorkshire folk first, and ‘English’ or ‘British’ second. It’s the UK equivalent of Texas: it inspires fierce loyalty. It has it’s own dialect, and several distinct regional accents—a mix of Iron Age Celtic rhythms, Old English, Norse, and, from the second half of the 20th century, Caribbean and South Asian, with a sprinkling of Polish.
The Domesday Book, compiled about a thousand years ago, noted which steadings, hamlets, demesnes etc stood where, and if you tot up all the mentions, to the tax-hungry Normans Yorkshire looked something like this:
Domesday YorkshireFrom 1889, Yorkshire had three administrative regions or Ridings: West (the largest), North, and East. Like this:
The three Ridings of YorkshireThere was a Sheriff of Yorkshire until 1974 when there was another reorg which frankly is best forgotten—they took part of Yorkshire away and called it something else!—and then in 1996 that miserable reorg was itself reorged, and Yorkshire was reconstituted and then split into four ceremonial counties: West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire.1 Like this:
Administrative counties: South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, and the East Riding of Yorkshire.Why did I originally talk about all this on my research blog? Because I got tired of historians airily describing seventh-century Elmet as Basically West Yorkshire to which I’d always want to respond, Yes, but *which* Yorkshire?? That of course, will be the subject of an essay—though by ‘essay’ I suspect we might be reaching monograph territory: it will be at least 20,000 words long, with scores of maps and diagrammes—on all things Elmet. Where it was. What it was. Why it was, and when. The more I work on it the more I realise I’m really writing a summary of all I know and suspect about how The Britain of Imperial Rome became the Britain of Hild by the early seventh century. In other words, it may never be finished but it’s a deliciously knotty project.
But today is Yorkshire Day! I banish knottiness, exile it to the outer darkness of The South! Today we unproblematically celebrate all things Yorkshire: a strong brew, chip butties, and a pint or two of Tetleys. And if any you mardy buggers has owt to say to that, I’ll bray yer!
For all those from Yorkshire. #yorkshireday
Happy #YorkshireDay
To all my peeps over there!
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A close-up of a backlit white rose with yellow stamens.
Why caving? Because Yorkshire’s bones are alive. ⛰️💧
Gareth Williams + KCC & CCPC dive deep: abseiling, scrambling, gasping at waterfalls in the dark.
Happy Yorkshire Day, where the ground is the adventure.
Video’s wild. Hearts are full. Come on down.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XgB5TajWYiI
#yorkshireday #yorkshiredales #uk #britain #england #caving #potholing #spelunking #outdoors
Happy #YorkshireDay from the #ubuntu UK community
🌹 Happy Yorkshire Day!
The perfect excuse to share this shot of the wonderfully atmospheric Whitby Abbey — one of my favourite places on the planet. Look closely and you might just spot Dracula as the sun sets… 🦇
#YorkshireDay #Gothic #Whitby
#yorkshireday Best thing to come out of Lancashire.....road to Yorkshire.
Scarborough is redrawn with more detail.
Happy #YorkshireDay
#yorkshireday
#Yorkshire
Happy Yorkshire Day to all of you who celebrate it.
Don't forget the Yorkshire war cry -
"Ow much !?"
Today is also #YorkshireDay. (For those unfamiliar with British geography, Yorkshire is in the Midlands.)
Today is also #YorkshireDay. (For those unfamiliar with British geography, Yorkshire is in the Midlands.)
Happy Yorkshire Day to my fellow Tykes. Commiserations to all those of you who don't hail from God's Own County, it's really not your fault you poor things.
Happy #YorkshireDay to my favourite suburb of Greater #Manchester!
On this glorious rainy #YorkshireDay a couple of choice phrases from my Grandma who allegedly walked through blitzed out Sheffield to return to her sister in Rotherham to see if she was okay (no busses, because The Blitz).
"wer tha born in a barn?" - why have you not shut the door?
"everyone is crackers, 'xcept for thee and me, and i'm not so sure about thee"
"it's a reet swiz"; i came to understand that "swiz" meant swindle or con.
