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xmob:
Even if Yorkshire is split up, North Yorkshire is still the biggest county in the country.  Gives you some idea of the size of Yorkshire.

Range Rover Blues:

--- Quote from: "Bishops Finger" ---You Yorkshire folk shouldn't feel too downtrodden
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We aren't downtrodden.  Just because we don't sing the praises of our county like some folks do....
After all, if we told you all how good it is, everybody would want to live here :roll:

Big Watty:
Just to put the record straight - a cockney is someone born within the sound of bow bells - not someone who was just born in London

Bush Tucker Man:

--- Quote from: "Big Watty" ---Just to put the record straight - a cockney is someone born within the sound of bow bells - not someone who was just born in London
--- End quote ---


That's true.


http://www.stmarylebow.co.uk/?Bow_Bells

As it says in the first paragraph;
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to be born within the sound of Bow bells was the sign of a true Londoner or Cockney; and Bow bell's authority ends the medieval nursery rhyme Oranges and Lemons.
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