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Bush Tucker Man:
The Biggest & Best :wink:

It's a reasonably well-known fact (by its inhabitants anyway) that there are more acres in Yorkshire than in letters in the Bible.
Yes, letters, not simply words. So it must be big

There are (supposedly) 3,586,483 letters in the Bible (sorry, don't know which edition)
Yorkshire comprises of 3,889,432 acres
The biggest county in the Country

We even have 20,749 acres of inland water, of all catagories


Admittedly these figures are pre-1974 re-delineation of county boundaries & consisted of the North, East, West Ridings & the City Of York.  

In the end we gave a bit to Lancashire, a bit to Derbyshire & were generally b*ggered about with (like most counties)
But we got some back as well.

Surprisingly, for some people, Yorkshire is almost as big as Wales :shock:
It's well over 4/5ths the size of it & they get a Parliament :x
Lincolnshire is the next largest county (half the size of Yorkshire)

Rutland is almost 40times smaller :shock:

It's quite possibly the most varied county?
We have (for example)
2 World Heritage sites (Fountains Abbey & SaltAire. Both are well worth visiting)

Sheffield (once the biggest steel producer in the world & reknown for its cutlery)

Leeds (beautiful Victorian buildings, Harvey-Nicks- only one outside London, site of many industrial firsts, one of the first railways, Home of Yorkshire Cricket Club)

Holmfirth ( & surrounding countryside; the home of 'Last Of The Summer Wine')

North Yorkshire Moors (Goathland; 'Heartbeat' village, Scarborough, Whitby (Lewis Carroll & Brahm Stoker links)

Wakefield (Originally one of the largest townships in the country & the regional capital. Many firsts are attributal to the city)

Bradford (curry capital of the north, & superb surrouding countryside)

York (a bit over-preserved in parts, but for lovers of ancient buildings it's a must, the National Railway Museum)



Sadly we have also have a regional equivilant of George Bush (read; hopeless idiot);
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John Prescott (he's from Hull)

dracula:
But you don't have as many miles of hedgerow as Devon :tongue:
Approx 33,000 miles :wink:

Bishops Finger:
Shropshire is Englands biggest inland county and there is also a world heritage site

Bush Tucker Man:

--- Quote from: "Bishops Finger" ---Shropshire is Englands biggest inland county and there is also a world heritage site
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Just  got to be the gorgeous Ironbridge

Fountains Abbey. Clever chaps those Cistercian Monks, they were dealing in 'Futures' in the 13th century. Selling fleeces & meat from Sheep that weren't even born.
I seem to remember that at todays rates, they were making over £10,000,000 a year :shock:

SaltAire

TimM:
Yorkshire being big to me is not an asset.

I can get to SOUTH Yorkshire up the M1 in about 20 minutes (less if plod is asleep!), and I bought TOR this month as it featured NORTH Yorks, so I thought it wouldn't be too far away..... WRONG!!

I couldn't place where it was, and after consulting the map it is nowhere near me.

There are only 3 areas of England, south, central and Yorkshire.

Is that good though?

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