From the mid-1970s the ( now loss-making ) British Steel pursued a strategy of concentrating steelmaking in five areas: South Wales, South Yorkshire, Scunthorpe, Teesside and Scotland.

After Dunkirk Alexander returned to the UK and continued to command I Corps, now guarding the coasts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.

A former ICI plant in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, now owned by Syngenta.

Cook was born in the village of Marton in Yorkshire, now a suburb of Middlesbrough.

" However, the overall picture from the surviving early ballads and other early references suggest that Robin Hood may have been based in the Barnsdale area of what is now South Yorkshire ( which borders Nottinghamshire ).

Robin Hood himself was once thought to have been buried in the grounds of Kirklees Priory between Brighouse and Mirfield in West Yorkshire, although for the reasons given above this theory has now largely been abandoned.

William Stukeley in 1740 notes, " Pendulous rocks are now called henges in Yorkshire ... I doubt not, Stonehenge in Saxon signifies the hanging stones.

It states that she was born in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, in a cave now known as Mother Shipton's Cave, that along with the Petrifying Well and associated parkland is operated as a visitor attraction.

In the United Kingdom, West Indian immigrants brought with them the traditions of Caribbean Carnival, however the Carnivals now celebrated at Notting Hill, London ; Leeds, Yorkshire, and other places have become divorced from their cycle in the religious year, becoming purely secular events, that take place in the summer months.

Th-fronting, L-vocalization and T glottalization can now be found in every county of England ( with L-vocalization being largely absent from Northern England ), whereas before the 1960s the only Cockney feature that was common to all of England, except for much of East Anglia, North East England, Yorkshire and Lancashire was H-dropping.

To the second impression of the Third Folio ( 1664 ) he added seven plays, including Pericles, Prince of Tyre and six others not now considered authentically Shakespearean: Locrine, The London Prodigal, The Puritan, Sir John Oldcastle, Thomas Lord Cromwell, and A Yorkshire Tragedy.

He recovered and agreed to give the Abbot of Fountains Abbey land at Barnoldswick in the West Riding of Yorkshire ( now in Lancashire ) on which to found a daughter abbey.

Wilson won a scholarship to attend Royds Hall Grammar School, his local grammar school ( now a comprehensive school ) in Huddersfield in Yorkshire.

The choice was probably also a tribute to the future Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, who opened Leeds Infirmary in 1867 and the Yorkshire College buildings ( now the University of Leeds ) in 1885.

Eadred “ reduced all the land of Northumbria to his control ; and the Scots granted him oaths that they would do all that he wanted .” Moreover, in 947 he convened Archbishop Wulfstan and the Northumbrian witan at Tanshelf ( now in Pontefract, West Yorkshire ), on the boundary of the Humber ( near an old Roman road ), where they pledged their obedience to him.

Yorkshire pudding normally accompanies beef ( although traditionally served in Yorkshire, as a starter, from the days when meat was scarce so was served first as a " filler " ), sage and onion stuffing pork, and usually parsley stuffing chicken ; gravy is now often served as an accompaniment to the main course.

This includes the entirety of the soap opera Coronation Street which is now held at the Yorkshire Television archive, which itself possesses largely intact archives ( although some early colour shows from the late 1960s and the early 1970s such as the entire output of the drama Castle Haven, the first two series of Sez Les and the children's variety show Junior Showtime are missing and believed wiped ).

South Yorkshire County Council was abolished in 1986, and so its districts ( the metropolitan boroughs ) are now effectively unitary authority areas ; however, the metropolitan county, which is some, continues to exist in law and as a geographic frame of reference.

The first independent Trust was formed in Norfolk in 1926 as the Norfolk Naturalists Trust, followed in 1938 by the Pembrokeshire Bird Protection Society which after several subsequent changes of name is now the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales and it was not until the 1940s and 1950s that more Naturalists ' Trusts were formed in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Cambridgeshire.

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.

Around the 850s the now developed monastery was abandoned in a hurry ; historians presume this was because of the invasion of the so-called Great Heathen Army of Norse vikings who had invaded part of Great Britain, and established the Kingdom of Jórvík in the Yorkshire area.

The estate is now owned by Yorkshire Water where they operate a sewage treatment plant.

The bunker was in the grounds of Oakroyd Hall, making this a target for the German Luftwaffe ; Oakroyd Hall is now the headquarters of the West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service.

The former Yorkshire and England cricket captain Brian Close lived in the town during his childhood and still lives there now.

He made the journey from London to Yorkshire, a distance of about 185 miles, in only four days, enabling him to take the Norwegians completely by surprise.

Elland manor house was therefore never completely reconstructed and, when it was dismantled and excavated in 1975 by the West Yorkshire Archaeology Unit, it was found to incorporate a 13th century solar wing – one of the earliest secular buildings in the county.

In May 1993, however, during a match for Yorkshire against Hampshire at Southampton, he shifted his mindset completely.

Jackson recalled that when Hawke began his career, Yorkshire had a " completely professional side including players whose names became famous in cricket history ".

The was short-lived, however, and Westcountry then dropped the series completely, meaning that viewers in Yorkshire, the Midlands and the South West never saw the entire series.

However, on good wickets Foster was regarded so highly he played for the Rest of England against Kent ( who had dominated the season more completely than any side since Yorkshire in 1901 ), but he never found his length.

Along with neighbouring Kiveton Bridge station it was completely rebuilt during the early-1990s with modern platforms, lighting and waiting shelters, this work being funded by the South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive.

Along with neighbouring Kiveton Park station it was completely rebuilt during the early-1990s with modern platforms, lighting and waiting shelters, this work being funded by the South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive.

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.

Similar instructions were published in 1747 in The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Simple by Hannah Glasse under the title of ' Yorkshire pudding '.

The Battle of Stamford Bridge took place at the village of Stamford Bridge, East Riding of Yorkshire in England on 25 September 1066, between an English army under King Harold Godwinson and an invading Norwegian force led by King Harald Hardrada of Norway ( Old Norse: Haraldr harðráði ) and the English king's brother Tostig Godwinson.

Meanwhile, a Parliamentarian cavalry force under Sir Thomas Fairfax, who had been campaigning in Cheshire and Lancashire during the winter, crossed the Pennines and entered the West Riding of Yorkshire.

Wensleydale Dairy Products is seeking to protect the name Yorkshire Wensleydale Cheese under a submission for Protected designation of origin.

* Samuel Webster's, a former brewer in Yorkshire, England whose brand continues under Heineken ownership

Five examples of this are Manchester ( where the traditional area associated includes areas of the neighbouring authorities of Trafford, Tameside, Oldham, Bury and the City of Salford ), Kingston upon Hull ( where surrounding areas and villages that are effectively suburbs, such as Cottingham, come under East Riding of Yorkshire Council ), Glasgow ( where suburban areas of the city are located in East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, South Lanarkshire and West Dunbartonshire ), Wolverhampton ( areas of the neighbouring authorities of Walsall, Dudley and South Staffordshire ) and, most obviously, London ( Greater London outside the City of London ).

Castleford Civic Centre Castleford was established as an urban district, in the administrative county of the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1894 under the Local Government Act 1894, with an urban district council.

An extensive bus service is provided by several operators under the guidance of the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive.

Rothwell was constituted an urban district in the West Riding of Yorkshire under the Local Government Act 1894.

The manor became royal again under Harold II of England, and by the Norman Conquest, 28 townships in what is now South Yorkshire belonged to the Lord of Conisbrough.

He was made deputy-governor of the Isle of Ely by Cromwell and served under Manchester in the Yorkshire campaign and at the second Battle of Newbury, afterwards supporting Cromwell in his accusations of incompetency against the general.

Fairfax was soon replaced by Sydnam Poyntz, and under this officer Lambert served in the Yorkshire campaign of 1645, receiving a wound before Pontefract.

Stagecoach acquired the company from Yorkshire Traction in 2005, and has come under fire for operating the service poorly.

On 14 October 1322, the English army was routed by the Scots, under the command of Robert the Bruce, at the Battle of Old Byland in Yorkshire.

There are also services to Otley, Bradford, Knaresborough and Pateley Bridge, and in April 2008 a new service to York was commenced under the branding Yorkshire Connect but was pulled in 2011.

After attending school in Sussex and at Marlborough College, Gresley served his apprenticeship at the Crewe works of the London and North Western Railway, afterwards becoming a pupil under John Aspinall at Horwich of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway ( L & YR ).

Yorkshire Television Ltd still legally exists, but its licence is now owned and operated by ITV plc under the licence name of ITV Broadcasting Limited ( along with all the other ITV plc-owned franchises ).

In 1974 and following a reverse takeover Yorkshire Television was effectively merged with its neighbour Tyne Tees Television, when the two were brought under the control of Trident Television Limited, a company formed in 1969 to deal with the problem of effective ownership of the Bilsdale transmitter and the allocation of airtime.

In the 1980 franchise round several YTV staff submitted their own application for the Yorkshire franchise under the name of ' Television Yorkshire '.

To ensure Tyne Tees's survival, the ITA allowed it to affiliate with Yorkshire Television under a joint management company named ' Trident Television '.

Yorkshire and Tyne Tees then came under Trident's ownership on 1 January 1974.

New regulations from the ITC allowed Yorkshire to merge with Tyne Tees, this time under the name Yorkshire-Tyne Tees Television plc ( YTTTV ), although their ITV franchises remained separate.

Produced by Buena Vista International and Touchstone Pictures, it features a screenplay by Tim Firth and Juliette Towhidi based on a true story of a group of Yorkshire women who produced a nude calendar to raise money for Leukaemia Research under the auspices of the Women's Institutes in April 1999.