Yorkshire
Yorkshire, maritime county of England; bounded N. by Durham and the Tees,
NE. and E. by the North Sea, S. by the Humber and Lincolnshire, Notts, and
Derbyshire, SW. by Cheshire, W. by Lancashire, and N.W. by Westmorland;
length, E. and W., 96 miles; breadth, 80 miles; area, 3,882,851 acres,
population 2,886,564. Yorkshire is the first county of England in point of
size, and the third in point of population. From the mouth of the Tees to
Flamborough Head the coast is bold and rocky; from Flamborough Head to
Spurn Head it lies low. The interior presents the appearance of a great
central valley stretching SE. to the Humber, and flanked on either side by
heights - on the E. by the Cleveland Hills and the Wolds, and on the W. by
the Pennine chain. . . Yorkshire takes high rank as an agricultural,
manufacturing, and mining county. It is well supplied with every means of
communication. It has from an early period been divided into 3 Ridings -
viz., East, North, and West, besides the Ainsty or Liberty of the city of
York. Each Riding has a lord-lieutenant and a separate court of quarter
sessions and a commission of the peace, and statistically is treated as a
distinct county. It contains 26 wapentakes; 3 liberties; 1636 pars. with
parts of 2 others; the parliamentary and municipal boroughs of Bradford (3
members), Dewsbury (1 member), Halifax (2 members), Huddersfield (1
member), Kingston upon Hull (3 members), Leeds (5 members), Middlesbrough
1 member), Pontefract (1 member), Scarborough (1 member), Sheffield (5
members), Wakefield (1 member), and York (2 members); and the municipal
boroughs of Barnsley, Batley, Beverley, Doncaster, Hedon, Morley,
Richmond, Ripon, and Rotherham. It is in the dioceses of York, Ripon, and
Manchester."
(Transcribed from Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles, 1887.
-D.H.)
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