In 1850 Holmfirth railway station opened, part of branch line built by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company.

The Keighley and Worth Valley Railway is a long branch line that served mills and villages in the Worth Valley and is now a heritage railway line in West Yorkshire, England.

Joe Hall, Yorkshire branch President of the National Union of Mineworkers said that the " miners in this area will go to almost any length rather than see Wentworth Woodhouse destroyed.

The White Rose of York was depicted below the branch alluding to the home county of Yorkshire and the sheaves of Sheffield ( Sheaf field ) were shown at either side of the owl's head.

The Leicester branch from the GN & LNWR joint line at Marefield Junction opened on 1 January 1883, and in West Yorkshire, Thornton to Denholme opened on 1 January 1884 and on to Keighley on 1 November.

In the 19th century, Skipton emerged as a small mill town connected to the major cities by the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and its branch Thanet Canal, ( known locally as ' Springs branch Canal '), but during the 20th century Skipton's economy shifted to tourism, aided by its historic architecture and proximity to the Yorkshire Dales.

The main branch of Halifax, in Halifax, West Yorkshire | Halifax.

Alford has two banks, Lloyds TSB and Barclays, and has a branch of the Yorkshire Building Society.

On leaving university he was appointed a branch officer in North Yorkshire in the National Association of Local Government Officers in 1979, becoming the district officer for the West Midlands in 1981, a position he held until his election to Westminster.

He served as a branch delegate and member of the Yorkshire area committee of the NUM.

Despite holding a Scottish peerage, the Lords Fairfax of Cameron are members of an ancient Yorkshire family, of which the Fairfax Baronets of The Holmes are members of another branch.

The party was formed by Eddy Morrison, and Kevin Watmough " a key figure in Combat 18 " and webmaster of Redwatch ; the new party was effectively the Yorkshire branch of the British National Front, and the party conducted most of its activities in Yorkshire-an area where the far-right had always been very weak until fairly recently.

A high-street branch of the Yorkshire Bank in Peterborough.

The Halifax, West Yorkshire | Halifax branch of Lloyds on George Square, built 1897.

In 1910 he became branch secretary of the Yorkshire Miners ' Association and was elected to Hoyland UDC for the Elsecar ward in 1912 and to the West Riding County Council in 1921.

A UK branch of Dunnes in the Kirkstall area of Leeds, West Yorkshire.

It is currently one of only two heritage railway lines in the UK that operates a whole branch line in its original form, the other being the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway at Haworth in West Yorkshire.

In 1845 he became chief engineer to the Manchester and Leeds Railway, and in 1847 to its successor, the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway for which he constructed a large number of branch lines.

While a reporter at the Yorkshire Post, Ingham was an active member of the National Union of Journalists and was vice chairman of the Leeds branch.

The Elsecar Heritage Railway is located on the southern part of the former South Yorkshire Railway freight-only branch which ran from Elsecar Junction on its Mexborough to Barnsley line.

Before the 1923 Grouping the first section of the line ( Leeds-Bradford ) was owned by the Great Northern Railway ( GNR ); and the entire remainder by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway ( L & YR ), apart from the final section of the branch leading into Huddersfield, which was owned by the London and North Western Railway ( LNWR ).

Here it joins the former Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway line, part of a link between two branch lines opened many years earlier by the South Yorkshire Railway.

A branch of Specsavers in the Horsefair Centre in Wetherby, West Yorkshire.

A month later, the Bamforth company in Yorkshire made a restaged version of this film under the same title, and in this case they filmed shots of a train entering and leaving a tunnel from beside the tracks, which they joined before and after their version of the kiss inside the train compartment.

In her 1915 work The Pulleynes of Yorkshire, author Catharine Pullein suggested that Fawkes's Catholic education came from his Harrington relatives, who were known for harbouring priests, one of whom later accompanied Fawkes to Flanders in 1592 – 1593.

A later rival to Coronation Street was ITV's Emmerdale Farm ( later renamed Emmerdale ) which began in 1972 in a daytime slot and had a rural Yorkshire setting.

The Blackburn Aeroplane & Motor Company was created in 1914, established in a new factory built at Brough, East Riding of Yorkshire in 1916, where Robert's brother Norman Blackburn was later Managing Director.

Plane Stupid then was launched in 2005, in an attempt to combat the growing airport expansions in the UK using direct action with a year later the first Camp for Climate Action being held with 600 people attending a protest called Reclaim Power converging on Drax Power Station in North Yorkshire and attempted to shut it down.

At its west end is the Great West Window, known as the ' Heart of Yorkshire ' which features flowing tracery of the later decorated gothic period.

In Bingley, Yorkshire, a group of ‘ physical force ’ Chartists led by Isaac Ickeringill were involved in a huge fracas at the local magistrates court and later prosecuted for rescuing two of their compatriots from the police.

Lord Cork later served as Lord High Treasurer of Ireland and as Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire.

He later represented Tamworth and Yorkshire in the English House of Commons.

Pope also wrote or co-wrote many comic songs for Not the Nine O ' Clock News and Spitting Image including British Number 1 hit single " The Chicken Song " with Rob Grant & Doug Naylor and along with Simon Franglen, he did the main theme for Round the Bend for Yorkshire TV, a three series comedy shown on CITV, later shown on Channel 4 and Nickelodeon.

He was the second mayor, in office from 1848 – 49, and was later Deputy Lieutenant for the West Riding of Yorkshire.

He attended Half-Acres Junior and Infants school before later attending Castleford High School some of his work can be seen at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park at West Bretton.

From 1976 to 1996 Esholt was used for the outside location shots for the Yorkshire Television drama series Emmerdale Farm later Emmerdale.

In the 12th and 13th centuries the Knights Templar and later the Knights Hospitallers were granted land and properties in Yorkshire.

The wool trade also brought the Rochdale Canal ( running from Sowerby Bridge to Manchester ) and the Manchester and Leeds Railway ( later the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway ) ( running from Leeds to Manchester and Burnley ).

The abbey maintained the Chartularies of St John, a collection of historic documents later discovered by Thomas Levett, High Sheriff of Rutland and a native of Yorkshire, among family papers.

Levett gave the chartulary to Roger Dodsworth and it was later published by the Yorkshire Archaeological Society.

The inn's license was subsequently transferred to the Greyhound Inn, a straw-thatched building on Tong Lane, but later moved to its present site, and thus, a griffin is the symbol of the historic pub village cricket team, Tong Cricket Club who have played in several cricket leagues in the West Yorkshire area.

Even though the Bill received cross-party support ( it was co-sponsored by Shadow Home Secretary David Davis, and supported by all other MPs representing North Lincolnshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire ) it ran out of time later that year.

As a result, Oldham played no part in the initial period of the Industrial Revolution, although it did later become seen as obvious territory to industrialise because of its convenient position between the labour forces of Manchester and southwest Yorkshire.

Transmissions began in Lancashire on 3 May 1956, and Yorkshire six months later.

The Princess and her husband had homes in London, Chesterfield House and in Yorkshire, first Goldsborough Hall, and later Harewood House.

A large section of this road formed what for many later centuries became the Great North Road between Nottinghamshire and West Yorkshire.